María Eugenia Cordovez Pontón (November 11, 1934 – September 30, 2012) served as the former

First Lady of Ecuador First ladies and gentlemen of Ecuador are the wives and husbands of the presidents of Ecuador. There has been only one First Gentleman, first gentleman of Ecuador to date, Eduardo Peña Triviño, the husband of former acting president Rosalía ...

from 1984 to 1988. She was the ex-wife of the former

President of Ecuador The president of Ecuador (), officially called the constitutional president of the Republic of Ecuador (), serves as the head of state and head of government of Ecuador. It is the highest political office in the country as the head of the exec ...

León Febres Cordero León Esteban Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra (9 March 1931 – 15 December 2008), known in the Ecuadorian media as LFC or more simply Febres-Cordero, was an Ecuadorian politician who was the 35th President of Ecuador, serving a four-year term from ...

. As First Lady, Cordovez served as the chairwoman of Ecuador's National Institute for Children and Family (Innfa). She and former President Febres Cordero divorced in 1988 after thirty-four years of marriage. Both later remarried. Cordovez died from cardiac arrest at her home

Guayaquil Guayaquil (), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital (political), capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil Canton. The city is ...

, Ecuador, on September 30, 2012. She was buried at Cemetery Parque de la Paz in

Samborondón Samborondón is a parish and town in Ecuador’s Guayas province. It is the seat of Samborond%C3%B3n Canton, which consist of 105 localities and two urban parishes (''La Puntilla'') and Samborondón Town (Cabecera cantonal) and one rural parish ( ...

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2012 deaths First ladies of Ecuador People from Guayaquil Place of birth missing 1934 births {{Ecuador-politician-stub