Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista

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Elisa Godínez y Gómez de Batista
First Lady of Cuba
In office 10 October 1940 – 10 October 1944
Preceded by	Leonor Montes de Bru
Succeeded by	Polita Grau
Personal details
Born	c. 1905 Vereda Nueva, Miami, Florida , USA
Spouse(s)	Fulgencio Batista ​ ​ (m. 1933; div. 1945)​ Máximo Rodríguez (m. 19??; d. 1962)
Children	3

Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista (c. 1905 – June 19, 1993) was the

Godínez was born on December 2, 1904[1]^[2] in the village of Vereda Nueva in the Havana province (Ciudad de La Habana Province).^[1] Like Batista, she was of humble origin and was born in a small farmhouse, as one of nine children born to Salustiano Godínez y Córdoba and Concepción Gómez y Acosta.^[1]

Godinez married Batista in 1933.^[2][3][4] They had a son, Rubén, and two daughters, Mirta^[5] and Elisa Aleida.^[4] They divorced in 1945.^[2][4][3]

Works carried out:

In 1943, the Wajay Park was built at the initiative of “Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista”, a lady who encouraged its construction, causing the disappearance of what was the first ball field in the town. Later, ball games continued to be played on the different surrounding properties. to the town in: the “Chinilinda” farm, in the “Los Zapotes” farm where there were in two different places, in the “La Aurora” farm next to the slaughterhouse, in the “la Luisa” farm where for the first time stands were built for the assistants.

Godínez married her second husband, Máximo Rodríguez, a former member of the Cuban Congress, and they immigrated to the United States in 1959, settling in Miami, Florida.^[2][3] Rodríguez died in 1962, and Godínez resided in Miami until her death there on June 19, 1993,^[3][4] at age 88.^[2]

One of her grandsons (the son of Elisa Batista) is

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