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 loss of life in 2003. That yr, after 56 years in exile, she returned to Gijón to bury his ashes.
She is survived by her two youngsters, 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 guide 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 believe she began on the finish of the ’70s. We acquired her a typewriter, and she or he discovered use it. She was a lady with loads of vitality, and she or he had a robust want to put in writing. She wrote pages and pages. She thought it was essential to put in writing the memoirs of those that had died, in order that right this moment’s youth may share the reminiscence.”
Ms. Flórez Peón remained dedicated to socialism, gender equality and homosexual rights. Her son recalled, “She all the time stated: ‘Watch out. If we’re not united, the intense proper will come again.’” And she or he remained happy with her function as a vital guardian of Spain’s reminiscence after many years of state-imposed forgetting throughout the Franco years.
“A rustic with out a reminiscence is a rustic with out a soul,” she stated. “Spain was soulless. We will’t neglect, and we will’t resent. As a result of if we did, we develop into like them.”
Rachel Chaundler contributed reporting from Madrid.
