When Antonia Sobreira Bezerra was born in 1910, in Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil, her father, José Tavares Pirajá, was 24 and her mother, Isabel Sobreira Pirajá, was 22. She married José Geraldo Bezerra on 29 July 1924. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 5 July 1988, in Canindé, Ceará, Brazil, at the age of 78.
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Portuguese (mainly Brazil): nickname from bezerra ‘young cow, heifer’; see Becerra .
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