Ascension Mendieta (C), daughter of Timoteo Mendieta, who was shot in 1939 by forces of dictator Francisco Franco, leaves with her grandson Sergio after the burial of her father after he was exhumed from a mass grave in Guadalajara's cemetery by the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory(ARMH), in Madrid, Spain July 2, 2017. REUTERS/Juan Medina
MADRID (Reuters) - On the cusp of her 92nd birthday and after decades of waiting and uncertainty, Ascensiَn Mendieta, daughter of a victim of political violence killed almost 80 years previously, finally buried her father on a bright Sunday morning in Madrid.
Hundreds of mourners turned out to attend the non-religious ceremony in Madrid for Timoteo Mendieta, a trade unionist shot in the months following the Spanish Civil War and buried in a mass grave in a Guadalajara cemetery.
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