In 1973, mayor Luis A. Morales granted her the ad honorem title of Official Historian of the Government of Municipality of Ponce.
[5] In 1984, she became a professor of History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, where she taught for over 20 years.
Girón was a highly regarded historian, receiving many honors and accolades[citation needed].
[6] She was also editor to various works of other authors, among them Las Fiestas Populares de Ponce by Ramon Marin.
[7] Socorro Girón married Onofre Segura Limardo[citation needed] in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1939.