Bertha Puga Martínez | |
Office: | First Lady of Colombia |
Term Label: | In role |
President: | Alberto Lleras Camargo |
Predecessor: | Carola Correa Londoño |
Successor: | Susana López de Valencia |
Birth Place: | Temuco, Araucanía, Chile[1] |
Birth Date: | 13 March 1909 |
Death Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
Nationality: | Chilean-Colombian |
Citizenship: | Colombian |
Party: | Liberal |
Spouse: | Alberto Lleras Camargo |
Relations: | Arturo Puga Osorio (father) |
Bertha Puga Martínez (13 March 1909 - 9 August 2007) was the wife of the 20th President of Colombia, Alberto Lleras Camargo, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1958 to 1962.[2] She was also the daughter of Arturo Puga Osorio, Chairman of the Government Junta of Chile in 1932. She died on 9 August, 2007 in Bogota, D.C, Colombia.
She moved to Colombia with her family when her father was named Ambassador of Chile to Colombia, and it was then that she met her future husband Alberto Lleras Camargo, whom she married on 10 August 1931.[3] Alberto and Bertha had four children: Consuelo, Alberto, Ximena, and Marcela. Bertha died on 9 August 2007 at the age of 98.[4]