Juan Egea Golbano, the teacher who was the first mayor of Bacares under democracy, has died
Juan Egea Golbano, a teacher in Bacares for 20 years and the village’s first democratically elected mayor, has died in Granada at the age of 86.
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Bacares bids farewell to one of the names of its recent history. Juan Egea Golbano, the village’s last mayor under the Franco regime and its first under democracy, has died in Granada at the age of 86, as reported by La Voz de Almería.
A native of Senés, where he was born in March 1940, Egea was above all a teacher. According to the profile of him written by the historian Antonio Sevillano, his first postings were Pozo Alcón, in Jaén, and Níjar. He then came to Bacares, where he taught for 20 years and where he met his wife, Isabel González. It was during that period that he became mayor, for the UCD.
His mark on the village went beyond the school and the town hall. He was involved in setting up the Brotherhood of the Santo Cristo del Bosque in Bacares, which his wife chaired and of which he was secretary.
Later, his vocation took him to the La Chanca school, in the city of Almería, where he taught in the 1990s. He left his mark there too: the association La Chanca Pescadería A Mucha Honra has remembered him as an exemplary teacher and “a person with an immense heart, approachable, kind and affectionate”.
In his last years he divided his time between Senés and Granada. He leaves four children and five grandchildren. His farewell service, according to La Voz, was due to be held in Senés, his home village.
From elValle Actualidad, we extend our deepest condolences to his family and to the people of Bacares.
