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The former mayor of Río Maior, Manuel Sequeira Nobre, died on Friday at the age of 93, with the municipality decreed three days of municipal mourning, the current mayor, Filipe Dias, told Lusa.
Mayor of Rio Maior, in the Santarém district, between 1980 and 1983, Manuel Nobre was the founder, together with his parents and brothers, of the Noble Meat Industry.
He played various political roles (he was a councilor between 1968 and 1971 and in 1983 and 1984 and a municipal deputy between 1986 and 1989) and had an active civic participation in his municipality, having been one of the founders of O Ninho – Centro de Educación Especial de Río of Janeiro. Mayor and supplier of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Rio Maior.
Manuel Nobre, who was also linked to several companies, was born in Rio Maior on November 20, 1927.
In 1990, the municipality paid tribute to him in the celebrations of the city’s day (November 6) and, in 1991, the then President of the Republic Mário Soares awarded him the Degree of Officer of the Order of Merit, during the Official Commemorations . Portugal Day.
