Nationality Colombian Children Diana Turbay | Name Nydia Turbay Religion Roman Catholic | |
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Succeeded by Rosa Helena Alvarez Yepes Role Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala's ex-wife Spouse Gustavo Balcazar Monzon (m. 1984), Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala (m. 1948–1983) Grandchildren Maria Carolina Hoyos Turbay Similar People Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala, Gustavo Balcazar Monzon, Diana Turbay, Julio Cesar Turbay Quintero, Claudia Turbay Quintero | ||
Nydia Quintero Turbay (born 28 August 1932) is the ex-wife of the 25th President of Colombia, Julio César Turbay Ayala, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1978 to 1982 when they were still married.
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- Ni el dolor de perder a su hija detuvo a doa Nydia Quintero en su caminata
- Personal life
- Honour
- References
She is the President of Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the condition of impoverished Colombian families through educational and nutritional programs for children, the disabled and the poor.
Ni el dolor de perder a su hija detuvo a doña Nydia Quintero en su caminata
Personal life
She was born on 28 August 1932 in Neiva, Huila to Jorge Quintero Céspedes and Adhalía Turbay Ayala. Lebanese and Basque descent. She attended La Presentación in Neiva where she lived until the death of her father when she moved to Bogotá to study at the Liceo Nacional Femenino Antonia Santos. On 18 May 1948, against the wishes of her family, she married her maternal uncle Julio César Turbay Ayala in a clandestine wedding in a Roman Catholic ceremony at Santa Teresita Church in Bogotá. From their marriage they had four children, Julio César, Diana Consuelo, Claudia, and María Victoria. She divorced her husband in 1983 after his term as President of Colombia and hers as First Lady had ended, and remarried the following year in 1984 to Gustavo Balcázar Monzón, her marriage to former President Turbay Ayala was finally annulled by the Catholic Church in 1986.