Rosaura Lopez Lorenzo (16 March 1932,

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the ''Comarca'' (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rías Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality whi ...

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– 19 September 2005,

) was a maid of

John Lennon John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of ...

and

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...

the Dakota The Dakota, also known as the Dakota Apartments, is a Housing cooperative, cooperative apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street (Manhattan), 72nd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The Dakota was construc ...

apartment between 1976 and 1980. In 2005 she wrote a book in

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reflecting that period: ''En casa de John Lennon'' (''At John Lennon's House''), Hercules Ediciones, . The book contains photos of John, Yoko and Sean along with some postcards that John and Yoko sent to her, and anecdotes such as: *Rosaura explains that she taught Lennon to bake bread. *One day she unblocked the WC due to a

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bag. *Lennon burned a coffee maker because he forgot to fill it with water *Yoko was very superstitious. *John gave Yoko carnations on her birthdays, the number of carnations corresponding to her age. *The couple slept on a bedstead supported on two church pews. *Rosaura spoke with Lennon's killer,

Mark David Chapman Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American man who murdered former Beatles member John Lennon in New York City on December 8, 1980. As Lennon walked into the archway of his apartment building at The Dakota, Chapman shot Lennon from a ...

, the day before his death in the Dakota entrance. Rosaura arrived in Queens (New York) in 1962 with her husband Secundino and in 1974, she began working several jobs as a cleaner, one of them at the Dakota building, in the apartment next door to Lennon and Ono, who had previously shown interest in acquiring it for themselves. The owners had a good relationship with their neighbours and, when they decided to move to London, they rented the apartment to John and Yoko on the condition that Rosaura would continue her work there, as they wanted to keep her as an employee when they eventually returned to New York.

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En casa de John Lennon
Rosaura's book in the editor's web
At John Lennon’s House
A detailed description of the e-book version 1932 births 2005 deaths Spanish memoirists 20th-century memoirists John Lennon Maids 20th-century Spanish women writers Spanish women memoirists People from Pontevedra {{nonfiction-writer-stub