Later Years
In 1932, the University of Puerto Rico bestowed upon Roque an honorary doctorate degree. She was also named honorary president of the Puerto Rican Liberal Party.
In 1933, Ana Roque Giegel de Duprey died in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. The Government of Puerto Rico has honored her memory by naming a school in Humacao and a street in San Juan after her. There is also an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois named after Ana Roque.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Listen, Ange, I’ve been looking for a girl every Saturday night of my life. I’m 34 years old, I’m just tired that’s all.”
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