Petronella Elisabeth Herfst-Braams (Amsterdam, December 8, 1841 - Rotterdam, June 29, 1948) was the oldest living resident of the Netherlands two years later, at the age of 106, from her birth to 1946. As "Opoe Autumn", her name became especially proverbial in Rotterdam.
Petronella Elisabeth Braams was born in Amsterdam. At the age of 18, she married Pieter Herfst from Capelle aan de IJssel, driver on the horse tram. The couple lived in Honeydijk in Kralingen and received 16 children. They were married for almost 60 years when Pieter died. When she was 95 years old, Herfst-Braams met her daughter on the Lebanon road.
"Opoe Autumn" reached the age of 100 years in 1941, then another great rarity. The following year she received a birthday visit from War Mayor Müller. According to an anecdote she would have asked him, asked for a wish that she would like to see Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana again. In 1945, when she became 104, she received a scarf of cigarettes from the American Red Cross, which she immediately hit. She loved the good life, went to the cinema and never performed an embodiment of Rotterdam's tram harmony.
At the time of her 105th birthday, Autumn-Braams was already the oldest living resident in the Netherlands. At her death she was 106 years old and 204 days old. The Dutch age record for women, previously named by Kampen Sophia Abrahams-Wijnberg (March 12, 1799 - July 11, 1905), she had broken a few months earlier, April 8, 1948. She was buried at the Crooswijk General Cemetery.
In 2006, her grandson gave her "Sunday suit", which she had carried on for 40 years at any time, at the Rotterdam Museum.
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