Gabriela González was surprised that even in his last days her father, Don Germán González Navarro, had so much energy to try to finish his pending tasks.
Despite his health condition, he always remained lucid and with his mind occupied in doing what were his daily tasks, always thinking about how to help others.
She describes him as a consistent person, who made an effort to keep his word, who always set very high goals and sought to achieve them. He made an effort to serve others and tried to protect women, considering them the beginning of everything.
This Wednesday around 11:30 AM Don Germán González Navarro passed away, and this Thursday relatives and friends will gather to give him a great farewell, with the affection he earned through his works.
"When there was a need he always surrounded himself with people, for him nothing, he didn't like to buy clothes for himself, he always looked out for others, an exemplary husband, as a dad he always fought to help his children, whom he instilled with altruism, helping others, he always sought out those in need."
Dedicated to sports, he started running at 56, involved Don Ramón Iriarte to make the Lala Marathon possible. It was his idea and he perfected it over the years, because he took sports as a lifestyle and a way to involve society.
"He always preached by example, he taught us as his children. I remember that at Christmas he would give us clothes and then take us with him to give them to the needy, he told us to gift the jacket he had given us, it was a way of telling us that we had to let go of material things."
"Once we went home and took all the blankets and gave them away, we spent a night in the cold, but the next day he would buy us new ones. It was a lesson he taught us," Gabriela recalls.
In his last days, he was sick at the beginning of October, he recovered, he said he still had many things to do, he was active, he wanted tributes to be made, finish his book about women. He never stopped, always looking to do something for others, always supported by his wife Consuelo Duarte and his seven children.
WHO WAS GERMÁN GONZÁLEZ NAVARRO?
Don Germán González Navarro was born on August 11, 1926, son of the engineer José González Calderón, from whom he learned values that involved him in activities that looked after the development of the city, altruistic and nature lover, protector of Venustiano Carranza Forest, whose land was donated by his father.
As an entrepreneur, he dedicated himself to cotton production from 1952 to 1955, from 1953 to 1988, he was the manager of Algodonera Comercial Mexicana, S.A.
"He didn't like to buy clothes for himself, he always looked out for others, an exemplary husband, as a dad he always fought to help his children, whom he instilled with altruism," his daughter recalled.
In 1991, he was named president of the Venustiano Carranza Forest Board and from his retirement in 1985, he had the beginning of his sports career, which he always linked to athletics.
That was what motivated him to exercise for the benefit of his health. Admired for his strength, consistency and dedication, with that desire to do something great, something that in 1989 led him to participate in the founding of the Lala Marathon, the 42-kilometer race in which he took part in more than 16 editions.
He always looked out for others, that's why he promoted charitable activities, as he also collaborated with the Sertoma Club to carry out the "100 Kilometers for Love to You" marathon, with the purpose of obtaining funds for the Lagunero Center for Special Education, as well as running the 100-kilometer "Prayer for World Peace" super marathon, aimed at raising funds for the construction of the new center building.
The tall and tireless character motivated many people to run, he received many trophies, but above all the affection and admiration of the people.
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