predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place children religion nationality office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name
leonor montes de bru polita grau 7 december 1993 vereda nueva , havana province , cuba palm beach , florida usa mirta , elisa aleida batista godínez caridad batista godínez , fulgencio rubén batista godínez roman catholicism cuban first lady of cuba 2 december 1900 10 october 1940 fulgencio batista -lrb- 1926-1946 -rrb- elisa godinez gomez de batista.jpg elisa godínez gómez de batista
 10 october 1944 elisa godínez y gomez de batista
elisa godínez gómez de batista

elisa godínez gómez de batista -lrb- 2 december 1900 in vereda nueva , havana province , cuba - 7 december 1993 in west palm beach , florida usa -rrb- was the first lady of cuba from 1940 to 1944 .
she was the first wife of cuban president fulgencio batista .
godínez was one of nine children born to salustiano godínez y córdoba and concepción gómez y acosta .
she was born in a small farmhouse in the village of vereda nueva in the havana province .
her family later moved to wajay , when her father got employment at the psychiatric hospital known as mazorra until 1921 .
her family later moved to calabazar , where she gave birth to a son , felix valdespino y godínez -lrb- 1922 -- 1988 -rrb- .
batista met his wife when he was stationed in wajay and they married on july 10 , 1926 .
she would bear him three children ; mirta caridad -lrb- 1927 -- 2010 -rrb- , fulgencio rubén -lrb- 1933 -- 2007 -rrb- , and elisa aleida -lrb- b. 1941 -rrb- .
batista would father and legally recognise a daughter , fermina lazara batista y estévez during this marriage .
he started his relationship with his second wife before his divorce from godínez in 1946 .
her grandson -lrb- son of elisa -rrb- raoul g. cantero iii would become a justice of the florida supreme court .
