Dolores Fernández Marrero celebrated her 100th birthday this Wednesday surrounded by her close relatives and also by the mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, and the councilor Águeda Cedrés, who came to congratulate this centenarian grandmother from La Degollada.
The life of Dolores, who is the granddaughter of the popular poet from Las Breñas Víctor Fernández Gopar ‘El Salinero’, is marked by the sacrificial tasks of farming. “Everything was work, there were no Sundays, and sometimes I didn't rest for three months,” she recalled on her birthday, showing off her lucidity, her good memory and her sense of humor.
In the Fenauso Valley, she dedicated herself body and soul to the harvests of barley, wheat and millet, “from sunrise to sunset." "Today is another world,” she recalled.
Before grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sons-in-law and other relatives, she also wittily recounted the moment she met her husband, Miguel Sepúlveda: “Simple, we went to a dance from the old days and he winked at me.” From this union she had four children, two of whom have already died.
Dolores participated in 2018 in the recording of the poetic documentary ‘The Time of Salt. Following in the Footsteps of Víctor Fernández Gopar’, which recreates the life and work of her grandfather, El Salinero, the most important figure in the folklore literature of Lanzarote. In this film production sponsored by the Yaiza City Council and directed by filmmaker Carmen Tortosa, Dolores says that “if time could be recovered, a long, long, and long movie could be made.”
