Ángeles Flórez Peón was 17 when she braved mortar and artillery fire to bring food to her fellow Republican volunteers in the trenches of northern Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
At 18, she was a nurse tending to the wounded in the doomed effort to save Spain from a military takeover.
Ms. Flórez Peón died on May 23 in a hospital in Gijón, Asturias.
The Spanish press, which first reported her death, called her the last remaining militiawoman of the Spanish Civil War.
Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Socialist prime minister, paid tribute to her on social media, writing, “105 years of dignity, commitment and struggle for equality, liberty and social justice.”
Persons:
Ángeles, Peón, Flórez Peón, Pedro Sánchez, ”
Organizations:
Republican, Nationalist, Socialist
Locations:
Spain, Asturias, Gijón