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Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto
Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto (April 27, 1900 – April 3, 2009) was the widow of a wealthy Cuban businessman who died in poverty, unwilling to leave the island and unable to access her funds because of the US embargo on trade with Cuba.〔("The widow who withstood Castro with determination and prayer" ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', April 10, 2009 )〕 After her husband's death in 1951, and following the takeover of the Island under a Communist regime, she had become an anachronism, and ended her life in poverty, bereft of her wealth due to the U.S. embargo, and granted a tiny pension by the Castro government. A victim of political circumstance, she died there at the age of 108, and was buried next to her husband.
==Early years==
Born Mary Conception McCarthy in St. John's, Newfoundland, she was the daughter of a St. John's merchant of Irish descent. Her father's(Thomas McCarthy) store supplied the local fishing fleets with stores and supplies. As a young student she studied with the Sisters of Mercy, where she was quickly identified as a musical talent. As a young woman, furthering her studies in Boston, she met Pedro Gomez Cueto, a Spanish businessman. A smitten Gomez Cueto accompanied Mary back to St. John's to ask her father for permission to marry his daughter. Thomas McCarthy questioned his daughter's desire to marry the considerably older wealthy Spaniard. As a compromise he required Mary to stay at home and Gomez Cueto to go away for one year. If after that time they still wished to marry, he would give his blessing.
They married and settled in Havana, Cuba in 1923, becoming part of the wealthy enclave enjoying the life of the rich and famous.
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