The last days of Jesús Quintero: “Head down, silent and hardly recognized who visited him”

The family of Jesus Quintero He wanted an intimate and private burial in the municipal cemetery of San Juan del Puerto, the town of Huelva where the famous communicator grew up and lived, who died last Monday at the age of 82.

But at the funeral chapel and the funeral, held in the parish church of San Juan Bautista, in the same town, there were many friends of The fool on the Hill, the stage name, with which he became famous and admired. The journalist passed by there Isabel Gemio, Frank Rivera, Vicky Martin Berrocal or the bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla with his wife Lydia. A flower crown Alejandro Sanz It bore the following dedication: “Your word, silence and life will be eternal, thank you Jesus”.

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However, there was one notable absence, that of Jose Luis Lopez, the businessman known as the nougat, who helped Quintero in the last stage of his life, not only financially. This billionaire, known for his generosity, managed to convince the presenter to enter Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, a residence in Ubrique where El Turronero found and paid for a place for Quintero. There he was treated with all the necessary care and excellent medical and professional treatment, which María, his last wife, could not give him, since attending to him required attention 24 hours a day.

We have been able to know that the absence of the nougat (below, with his wife) It was due to the fact that the businessman did not want to take the limelight away from the funeral and the family. The press that had come to cover the event would have asked him about all the support he had given to Jesus Quintero throughout the last few years, so economically difficult for those who had had everything.

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The covid bill

Jose Luis Lopez he visited Quintero only two weeks ago at the residence and found him “downcast and silent”, he was already “very delicate”, to the point that “he barely recognized who visited him”. The covid that he had suffered and the pneumonia that was not completely cured had greatly reduced his health and ended up affecting his heart. It seems that finally his life went out without suffering. The city council of San Juan de El Puerto has announced that they will place a plaque on Placentines street with the name of its most illustrious neighbor.

The archive of Jesús Quintero, El loco de la Colina, will be kept in the same cultural center where he was fired, and disclosed through the Jesus Quintero Factory, a project that he was working on and that will go ahead hand in hand with his family and the City Council.

Quintero was the favorite son of San Juan de El Puerto and a medal of the province. The journalist always felt very attached to his land, where he took his first steps as a communication professional. Since his beginnings on Radio Huelva and despite living many years away from it, Quintero has always returned to his land, where he rests forever.