Later Years
Barbosa became a widow when her husband, economics professor José Ezequiel Rosario, died in 1963.
Puerto Rico Senate President Roberto Rexach Benitez and House Speaker Zaida Hernandez appointed Barbosa in 1993 as the first modern Official Historian of Puerto Rico, a post she held unter her death in 1997.
Pilar Barbosa de Rosario died on January 22, 1997 in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the age of 98 and was survived by a brother, Rafael Barbosa.
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