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In 1946, she married Graciano Rozada Vallina, a miner and Socialist militant who had been seized by Franco’s police whereas serving with Republican forces however who managed to flee and flee to France the subsequent yr. She quickly joined him there, in Saint-Éloy-les-Mines, the place they lived till his dying in 2003. That yr, after 56 years in exile, she returned to Gijón to bury his ashes.
She is survived by her two kids, María Ángeles Rozada and José Antonio Rozada, two grandchildren and one great-grandson.
Ms. Flórez Peón, who in her 90s was described by El País as “petite, smiling, charming, and strolling with a agency step,” was delighted to pose for selfies on the Madrid ebook pageant, the place she introduced her memoirs, “Memorias de Ángeles Flórez Peón: Maricuela” revealed in 2009, and “Las Sorpresas de Maricuela” (“Surprises of Maricuela”), from 2013.
“She wrote her memoirs in France,” Mr. Rozada, her son, stated. “It was throughout these years after we had grown up. I feel she began on the finish of the ’70s. We acquired her a typewriter, and he or she discovered tips on how to use it. She was a lady with lots of vitality, and he or she had a powerful need to put in writing. She wrote pages and pages. She thought it was vital to put in writing the memoirs of those that had died, in order that at this time’s youth might share the reminiscence.”
Ms. Flórez Peón remained dedicated to socialism, gender equality and homosexual rights. Her son recalled, “She all the time stated: ‘Be cautious. If we’re not united, the intense proper will come again.’” And she remained happy with her function as an important guardian of Spain’s reminiscence after many years of state-imposed forgetting in the course of the Franco years.
“A rustic and not using a reminiscence is a rustic and not using a soul,” she stated. “Spain was soulless. We can’t neglect, and we are able to’t resent. Because if we did, we turn into like them.”
Rachel Chaundler contributed reporting from Madrid.
