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The City Council and the Merchants Association of the Market dedicate a plaque on the bench in which the teacher spent many moments of his life, as one of the greatest notaries of the reality of Murcia.
Friends and personalities from the world of journalism, politics, culture and the arts clothed today the family of Murcia's master of letters.
Friends and personalities of the world of journalism, politics, culture and the arts wrapped today the family of Pedro Soler, in the posthumous tribute that Murcia wanted to render to the journalist, writer and chronicler of the city, "a good man, a humanist, a great of letters and art, a great Murcian who felt true passion for his land and who gave himself completely, without reservation, to her, "said Mayor José Ballesta.
His daughter, the journalist María Soler, accompanied by her brother and the widow of the honoree, Alice Glover, was in charge of discovering the plaque on the bench in the square where she sat every day, which was one of the largest notaries of the reality Murcia, with the following inscription: "In this bank sat the journalist and chronicler of Murcia, Pedro Soler Gómez, to see Murcia pass.
About that he wrote all his life.
1943-2018 ".
Murcia was orphaned by the presence of Pedro Soler on November 26.
"Today would have been his birthday, so congratulations, dad," her daughter said excitedly.
An indelible mark
The Association of Merchants of Veronicas, promoter of this tribute with the City Council, highlighted through Ramón Moñino, owner of a position in the square and close friend of the journalist, that "Pedro has left an indelible mark on this Market, which has been witness of his presence in this bank for more than 20 years ".
The general director of La Verdad, Antonio González, -diary in which Pedro Soler was head of Culture- indicated that "Pedro lived the profession and imbued the new generations who joined the newspaper of that vocation, becoming a teacher of journalists" and "he added that" the 116 years of La Verdad's history owe a lot to Pedro Soler, where he has left a great mark not only because of his journalistic side and as a chronicler, but also because of his human nature and his affable nature ".
His daughter María Soler pointed out that "my father was not a friend of praise and praise, but I think that this homage would please him, because it is in his square, in the Plaza de Abastos de Verónicas, where every morning he came to buy or simply to be in this bank, where he always waited for my brother or me to take him home "and thanked" those who are pleased to love him and support him, the mayor and the councilors, and The Truth for letting him be his newspaper " .
Finally, the mayor highlighted "the personality" of the teacher, "with an irony that disarmed you and always managed to get a smile" and closed his speech with a sentence by Gregorio Marañón: "Humans do not really die until they are not forgotten.
Pedro Soler is in our memory and will remain alive forever. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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