Author: Gabriel Echeverri González

Inesita Botero de Acosta.

Distinguished Civic leader, Executive Active and exemplary mother born in Sonsón-Antioquia- on August 20, 1921 and died in Armenia on July 14, 1981.His parents, Juan Botero Mejía and Pastreo Restrepo, both from Sonsón and dedicated to coffee businesses, five children were born: Juan (priest), Flavio, Humberto, Luis (doctor), and Inesita.

He attended his basic studies and culminated his baccalaureate in Sonsón but in 1940, his parents, attracted by the cafe, resolved to settle in the Quindío.

In the thriving city of Armenia he met the illustrious radiologist Emilio Acosta Vargas, one of the top figures of the profession and civility, who for about 55 years exercised his discipline and shone with his own light;Dr. Emilio born in Nemocón, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the National University in 1935, accepted the invitation of his friend and classmate Tomás Uribez, to try his luck in the promising Quindian land and arrived in 1942; on August 161947 married in the cathedral.

From this union, eleven children were born: Emilio, business administrator of EAFIT;Álvaro, Radiologist University of the Rosario, married to Clara Inés Urrea Botero, lawyer and speechover, three children;Alicia, language students and literature in the UPB, marriage to the German citizen Peter Blickensdoerfer;Luz María, social worker of the UPB, married to Iván Arias González, two daughters;Alfredo, lawyer of the University of Rosario, married to Miriam Escobar, lawyer of the Rosary, two children;Jaime, agronomist of the National University, marriage with Luz Piedad Ramírez Gómez, already deceased;Inés, professional nurse, a son;Silvia, dentist from the Colombian dental school, marriage with coffee Jaime González, three children;Juan Guillermo, agro -industrial engineer at the University of the Gran Colombia Armenia, married to Gloria Patricia Castaño, both deceased, a daughter;Elsa, Civil Engineer of the Santo Tomás, marriage with Luis Humberto Salinas, civil engineer, two children;Olga Lucía, a Colombian dental school dentist.In total, eleven outstanding professional children, an excellent offspring of 41 professionals living and working in Germany, the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia, leaving their family and their homeland high.

Housewife and civic leader.

Admirable mother, with her husband constituted a couple with full identity in her love for our land, including in her passage through political activity, as deputies of the first departmental assembly;Indeed, the conservative deputies were, as main: Inés Botero de Acosta, Pedro Jiménez Alzate, Maira Vélez de Vélez, Lisímaco Arcila Giraldo, Pedro Contreras Beltrán, María Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Díaz, Alberto Herreño H., Socrates Arbeláez Marín;In turn, the liberal deputies were: Iván López Botero, Emilio Acosta Vargas, Marconi Sánchez Valencia, Alberto Pava Londoño, Albertina Peláez Giraldo, Luis Carlos Flórez, Milcíades Restrepo, Efrén Arias Duque Duque.(one).

In this inaugural assembly of the department, Inesita was the first vice president and Dr. Emilio was the first temporary president in alphabetical order.

Councilor of Armenia.

At least for three opportunities he was councilor of the Municipal Dum.

Citizen Union of Colombia.

Enthusiast animator, he held the position of Treasurer on the National Board of Directors, with his companions he sought and fought for the equality of women, their civic rights;She participated in numerous social activities in favor of the female cause and looked for a house by house the solidarity of the ladies of the city;The important role fulfilled by the union of citizens in the 1957 plebiscite must be remembered, with the approval of the right to vote by women and other civil rights.

His extraordinary dynamism was not strange because just with 24 years of age, such as a pink lady, he collected money, clothing and other objects for orphaned children, belonging to the Board of Directors of the young woman who for many years that worked where today there is aHeadquarters of the Alexander von Humboldt University;Similarly, she was part of the management group of the Anita Gutiérrez de Echeverri Foundation.

of public improvements.

Outstanding figure of the Honor Table of the SMP, Dr. Emilio, in turn, occupied the presidency of the Board of Directors, promoter of the gardening club;The SMP recognized the immense work of it through the parks of the city, giving him the civic medal and calling the park annex to the El Eden airport with its name.It should be noted that Dr. Emilio was for several years, representative of the civic entities, in the CSU of the UQ.

The current remodeling of the airport swept the Popular Park and to date it is not known if civil aeronautics will replace the beautiful place that served as recreation to poor people;Something similar happened with the popular recreation park that died languidly and without mournings.

Fortuna.

As a good relationship, Mrs. Inesita was highly appreciated by the society of her time, not only because she identified with social values, in addition to her effort to help in humanitarian causes and for her close collaboration at two sensitive tasks.The first, her notable effort to help in the different pro department of Quindío, a collective yearning that took her several times to Bogotá, and also organize meetings and festivals Contentismos people;Second, she was no stranger to the Pro Cathedral Conference of Amenia, the civic movement of empanadas that fame in the society of the twentieth century.

Lady weapons take!

If Dr. Emilio with his constant task at the head of his renowned office managed to study his children at the best universities, Inesita was not far behind and thanks to her dynamism and work capacity, efforts of all kinds and banking support, she acquired three propertiesrural- The Empire, the Ponderosa and Santa Inés- covering the additional needs of its offspring, with its remarkable personal effort.I must emphasize that, missing parents, children wisely and after previously bound the lands, by draw each lot were awarded, without any discussion, some of those lands are preserved.

Awarded by the SMP and other civic and public institutions, with two of their children, Emilio and Alfredo, we have reviewed the existence of a lady who, despite his departure in full maturity, knew how to print to his daily acts a special charism thatIn addition to lifting with the strictest canons to his numerous family, he allowed him to project himself in the society of his time.There was no civic activity in which it did not intervene with its enormous vocation of service and altruism.

Inesita Botero de Acosta shone with her own light and in the pleasant company of her husband Emilio Acosta Vargas, gave life to an exemplary family, pride of the region and Colombia;The example of her is imperishable and her name will remain in the annals of history as an always living example of service to the society of her time.An exceptional woman.

1) Valencia Zapata, Alfonso.February 20, 1981.Historical Quindío.Quinographic editorial.Fourth edition.418 pages.

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