Mariza Gomes

Mariza Campos Gomes da Silva (born 19 March 1935) is the widow of 23rd vice president of Brazil, José Alencar, and served as second lady of the country between 2003 and 2011.

[2] Mariza met young José Alencar in her own birth town, where they got married on 9 November 1957.

At the end of Alencar's term as Vice President of the Republic in 2010, he presented a delicate state of health.

On 22 December 2010, he was submitted to a surgery to try to contain a bleeding in the abdomen,[3] dying on 29 March due to multiple organ failure in consequence of the cancer of the abdominal region.

[4][5] After leaving the Jabiru's Palace and the death of her husband, Mariza became donator of, at least, 50 charity institutions.

Mariza beside her husband and children, during his 79th birthday.
Open car parade during the second inauguration of Lula and Alencar.