Isabel Carmona and Ladislao Clemente Fernández Arroyo, who met 100 years, received a special mention of the hands of the Social Care Councillor during the ceremony held on Friday at the Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy
The hall of the Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy filled with family and friends to entertain the largest municipality on the International Day of Older Persons held on Friday September 30.
At the official ceremony attended by the Councillor for Social Care, Antonio Calderón, accompanied by about three hundred more of the clubs in town who would not miss the tribute to his neighbors who entered this year the centenary.
The tribute was paid to Elizabeth Carmona Clemente, born on July 14, 1911 at Vizcaya, now living in Cartagena and now at the Residence of Care, and Ladislao Fernández Arroyo, born on October 17, 1911 in Salamanca but also based in Cartagena from the civil war where he fell in love and built a family and worked closely linked to the commercial life of the city.
At the official ceremony also paid tribute to volunteers over 65 who have been working on throughout the year with the Chest of Experience and Accompaniment Program for the Elderly and a special mention to new volunteers Experience Chest for this course: Pedro García Romero, who made ​​the course more paint, and José Antonio Pérez González, who taught the course Introduction to Computing for seniors, and started with hiking poles for the elderly.
Romanza Trio's performance brought an end to the celebration of this event every year to remember our elders.
The International Day of Older Persons was also held with other activities throughout the day organized by the Department of Social Services.
During the morning we made ​​an open day in the museum centers Cartagena Puerto de Culturas attended by 400 people free access to the Panoramic Lift, the Castillo de la Concepcion, the Casa de la Fortuna, and the Punic Wall Decumano.
The two major centenarian received a deserved tribute are:
ISABEL CLEMENTE CARMONA:
Born on July 14, 1911, in Basauri, Vizcaya.
It is the third of 10 children.
Married to Jose Lozano, lived in Paris, Madrid and Barcelona, ​​with her husband crossed the ocean to arrive in Brazil, where he spent his best years, full of well-being and happiness of these years in the land of the Sugar Loaf comes the envelope The Brazilian name Isabel.
In 1990 her husband died and decides to return to Spain in search of a residence in the south and reached the city of Cartagena and moved into the Residencia de Fuente Cubas and currently in the Nursing Home Care.
Isabel has a good memory, sense of humor by people who know and polite, grateful and smart, loves to drink coffee at any time of day, relishes and closes his eyes a little imagining that comes from a good Brazilian roasting.
Although his family is away, they call frequently, when they come to visit, they want a lot, because it makes you want to.
Isabel is an example of a woman, for his bravery, by the stroke of his way steadily throughout his life.
Elizabeth is full of vivid stage, but all of them, full of wisdom and experience this magnificent woman continues to enjoy life in their walks with his wheelchair in the city she decided to reside.
Fern ndez LADISLAO ARROYO:
Born on 17 October 1911.
Ladislao's life began in a small town in Salamanca, Gallegos called Arman close to Ciudad Rodrigo.
Since very young he joined the army, this happened in the days before the civil war, in war it fell National area, designed on several fronts, being sent at the end of it to the city of Cartagena and headquarters Spain's 18, now Polytechnic University of Cartagena, this happened in the year would not leave the city 1939.Ya department, falls in love with this city and stay with us, his personal qualities achieved the rank of sergeant and is licensed by 50 years, is in Cartagena, where he settled and where he found his soul mate, Encarnación del Olmo Garcia, whom he married and fruit of Eustace and his son was born three great grandchildren.
When you leave military life to civilian passes, it becomes a small grocery retailer, opening a store in half a league.
For his humanitarian qualities and the encase of the time forced the closure of it, starting a new business, this time of hospitality, which would be a benchmark in the city until his retirement.
Who can forget the Bar The Tune of Park Street, where Encarnita Ladislao and delight us with their typical tapas and careful treatment of clients of an era.
Ladislao belongs to the generation of that Cartagena was to us, the twentieth century, the place Bar - Bodega Los Tune was a point of meeting places de Toros, because our man is a big fan of bullfighting as it is called now before was talking about Toros.
Lover of all that out of Cartagena and in particular Week, which always brought the head, his brothers work colleagues of the Association of Our Lady of Beautiful Love, with all her love every Easter Sunday, the Portapasos of the Virgin had a mandatory stop at the Bar The Tunes, where good and excellent person made by the marriage of Ladislaus and Encarnita always expected the visit of these brothers, in those years the homage of the Confraternity of the Risen One to Ladislao in retirement, a large painting of Our Lady of Fair Love and a dedication of love and affection that was our big man.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena