St. James's Day has been chosen to unveil a plaque in the same house where the master Gabriel Pardo Zapata, who today named a street in Santiago de la Ribera, a town that now celebrates his big day.
The mayor of San Javier, Pepa García accompanied by two daughters of the honoree, Rachel and Rita Pardo have discovered the plate in the presence of children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-master Gabriel Pardo, born in 1911 in Santiago de la Ribera, where he finished his eventful career as a teacher and director of the local school, and where he died 32 years ago.
The mayor of San Javier has been remembered as Gabriel, who helped his father in the work of fishing in the Mar Menor soon showed an ability to study, and as was the San Javier physician who undertook to guide you with much effort, while working carrying buckets of water taken from holes dug in La Manga, eliminating obtaining the title of master at the Ecole Normale de Murcia.
Gabriel Pardo had six children with his wife, Francisca Martínez Montesinos, served as a teacher in Murcia, Pozo Estrecho, in Orense and Las Lomas del Albujón, where he was secretary of the Casa del Pueblo.
The Civil War ended his vocation, and after being disqualified from holding public office for his political ideas, not frightened, and worked as a painter at the General Air Academy, the administrative, fishing again, and gave private lessons.
In the early 50's, by an amnesty, he managed to return to teaching to which you dedicate to your retirement, to various destinations, with El Mirador, and Santiago de la Ribera last.
Family and friends have highlighted the good character and was loved by all his neighbors Gabriel Pardo, whom one of his grandsons has dedicated an emotional memory, highlighting the imprint its personality left his family "and that title of master frame in the room that I longed to get and now we have several of his children and grandchildren to be able to dedicate to the most wonderful profession that exists. "
On behalf of all his family, his grandson, he thanked "the entire corporation for remembering my grandfather in the summer this morning by putting his name to the street where he lived his last years."
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier