Vera Cristina (Zabala Serrano) Clemente (1941 - 2019)

Born 7 Mar 1941 in Puerto Rico

Ancestors

Died 16 Nov 2019 at age 78 in San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Biography

Vera (Zabala Serrano) Clemente is Notable.

Vera Clemente was head of the Roberto Clemente Foundation, which was established in her husband Roberto Clemente's memory. She founded a sports education facility in Puerto Rico and was a Goodwill Ambassador for Major League Baseball. ^[1]

Vera Zabala Serrano was born in 1941 in Puerto Rico. She was the daughter of Flor Zabala-Perez and Marcia Serrano Ayuso.

She married Roberto Clemente in 1964 in Puerto Rico. After her husband Roberto died tragically in a plane crash in 1972, she raised their three young sons as a single mother while continuing Roberto's humanitarian legacy.

As a Goodwill Ambassador for MLB, she also traveled throughout her native Puerto Rico and around the majors promoting the Roberto Clemente Award, which is Major League Baseball’s most prestigious humanitarian award. Vera Clemente was also a fixture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., each July during induction weekend. ^[2]

She passed away in 2019 at the age of 78.^[3].

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Vera Clemente
2. ↑ https://www.lavidabaseball.com/we-mourn-our-baseball-queen-our-matriarch-vera-clemente/
3. ↑ Obituary for Vera Clement, Associated Press, published in Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov 2019, Online Copy

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 05 November 2020, 20:42), entry for Vera Cristina Zabala Serrano(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LYHV-SBZ); contributed by various users.