Biography[]
Maria da Silva was born 2 October 1938 in Braga, Portugal to Domingos and died 15 December 2020 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil of unspecified causes. She married Márcio Medeiros 1970 in Brazil.
Maria Helena Pinheiro (Braga, October 2, 1938 — Rio de Janeiro, December 15, 2020) was a naturalized Brazilian illustrator and judicial technician. In October 2020 she was diagnosed with skin cancer and in mid-December she was diagnosed with Sars-Cov-2 and died within 3 days. She started her career as an illustrator with 21 year old at a college. With 48, just 3 years before leaving college, Maria became a Judiciary Technician where she would stay for 15 years. Maria never had help from her mother at school, due to the fact that her sisters Lourdes and Virginia had a lot of school problems, at school Maria had her lowest grade a 7.8 at 10 years old, excelling in practically all tests. At the age of 22, she met Márcio Medeiros, a man who was 16 at the time, in 1970 they got married, in 1974 they had a son, in 1977 a daughter and divorced in 1982.
Up to 20 years old[]
At 6 months old Maria Helena came to Brazil by ship. Her mother and father almost never hit her a fact that she replicated in their children and her daughter replicated in hers. She has never met anyone in her family other than her parents and sisters. Her sister Virginia had a daughter and her sister Lourdes has never been in a relationship.
1960-2000: 40 years of happiness[]
During her daughter's childhood she has many funny stories. After entering a job in 1959, in 1960 she started dating Márcio Medeiros and 10 years later she got married, had a son and a daughter in less than 3 years, but in 1974 her father Domingos died at 75 and in 1982 separated from Márcio. Her son Leo was insufferable and she couldn't stand him. During 1982-1989, Maria had more than 50 cats rescued by her daughter, being one of the last Xen, a cat who would die in 2014 at 25 years old. A cat one who died earlier was Raí, a cat born in 1986 and died in 1989. In 1985, when she was 17 cats, she confused an ox liver that her sister would give to her children and her niece with a snack for the cats, and in the end, her children and niece were allied because they never liked meat. Her's daughter got a computer just then. In the 90's her daughter Carolina started dating at 16, got pregnant with Ana Beatriz at 20 and got married pregnant, she married Gustavo Marques de Almeida 2 years older and had a daughter at 21 in 1999.
2000's[]
During the early 2000s, Maria gave many valuable artifacts to her granddaughter and in 2008 she had her second grandson, Pedro Henrique Bento de Almeida. In 2010 Sofia was born the daughter of her son with Suzana and in 2016 her grandson Felipe was born. In 2010 she gave an XBOX 360 as a gift to her grandson Pedro Henrique. In 2016 She had 2 cats Rani and Lua and she received a cat named Bolt. In 2017 she gives a Playstation 4 as a gift to her grandson Pedro Henrique. In 2008, hers cats Ray and Lua died, she received 2 cats from her daughter for compensate In 2018, her cats Ray and Maya died, she received 2 cats from her daughter to compensate, Maya and Wicca, Wicca was sick and had to go to 3 veterinarians until she reached one that cured her. 10/24/2020 Maria that day was sick and was hospitalized, her illness was unknown for 2 weeks 11/07/2020 Maria was diagnosed with skin cancer 12/12/2020 Maria caught Sars-Cov-2 12/15/2020 died by Sars-Cov-2
Legacy[]
After her death her daughter and grandchildren took about 13 other cats to honor her.