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The Mayor of Yecla, Ortuño Marcos Soto has expressed the deep regret of all Municipal Corporation by death, in the afternoon yesterday in Madrid, Julia Figueira Rivela, widow of Jose Luis Castillo-Puche.

Tomorrow, Thursday, July 5 will be buried in the cemetery church of Yecla resting forever with Jose Luis Castillo-Puche, according to your wishes.

Previously, at eleven o'clock will officiate a funeral Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, where his remains came directly from Madrid.

Is expected to attend the Municipal Corporation of Yecla chaired by the Mayor.

Although born in Galicia, Julia Figueira Rivela was "making a yeclana, infected as it was the deep love for this land of her husband" the mayor recalled.

Bright college assistant at the Chair of Damaso Alonso, had made one of the most important thesis that in Spain there are about language.

Meet Jose Luis Castillo-Puche and abandons his burgeoning career to be at his side.

Will marry in 1954

Julia Figueira recalled that "children's stories had been published but the reality is that when I married Jose Luis, and was so sweeping, leave all things because he did not need anything, it was just outstanding."

Thus Julia becomes more solid in his personal and literary collaborator.

His personality was key in the path of our most universal writer, in the opinion of the leading specialists of the work of Castillo-Puche.

Yecla Mayor and President of the Foundation Castillo-Puche, Mark Ortuño, recalled that the death of Jose Luis Castillo-Puche, on February 2, 2004, "Julia becomes the driving force behind the Foundation that bears the name her husband, fulfilling the wishes of the writer. "

The Foundation was incorporated in Yecla in October 2006, in order to collect, manage, publish and distribute the production of the writer, both published and unpublished, catalog and archive the original texts of all his writings and lectures, speeches and other input of oral nature.

On January 25, 2011, Julia Figueira to actually start up of the bibliographical and documentary of the Foundation, which permits public access and research the legacy of writer Yeclano, comprising more than 8,000 journals and hundreds of manuscripts important authors.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Yecla