Teacher Asunción González passed away this Thursday at the age of 101. Asunción was a native of León, the youngest of four siblings, born "from the union of the secretary and the town teacher, who instilled in her a love for teaching, and whom she helped from the tender age of ten, to teach her more than eighty students, on the beautiful banks of Vegas del Condado."
Last year the Mercedes Medina Díaz Association honored her on her hundredth birthday.
She studied Baccalaureate in León, where "she had to face the harsh educational reform of the 1934 Baccalaureate Study Plan, which increased its duration, going from six to seven years, and imposing a revalidation in the last year that she successfully passed."
A teacher since 1945, she did internships near Riaño, in León, obtaining her first destination in Portilla de la Reina, in the Picos de Europa, from where she moved to live in Vigo. Later, the association recalls that she finally arrived in Lanzarote, "to practice for many years in the educational center known as 'El Grupo', the Generalissimo Franco, the current La Destila de Arrecife, in which the palm tree that she planted upon her arrival, on the corner of Duende Street, still stands majestically."
The wake of Asunción González is located in the Mémora Funeral Home in Arrecife. This Friday at 1:00 p.m. a funeral mass will be held in the church of San Ginés, for the subsequent burial in the Arrecife cemetery.