![]() ![]() ![]() Family lore said she proclaimed a desire to be a doctor at age 5. The charity operates on three continents.įigueredo was born in 1916 in Costa Rica where her father, Roberto Figueredo, was a noted soccer player who abandoned the family. One of the first women to practice surgical oncology, Figueredo established the Friends of the Poor charity to feed, clothe and provide medical care for people in Baja California. The service will be held at the Immaculata on the University of San Diego campus. Anita Figueredo, a pioneering surgeon in San Diego County, in Monday’s LATExtra section said her memorial service March 19 would be on the UC San Diego campus. She was 93 and had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage two weeks earlier.Īnita Figueredo obituary: A news obituary on Dr. Anita Figueredo, the first female surgeon in San Diego and a well-known philanthropist who was close friends with Mother Teresa for four decades, died Feb. ![]()
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