– 19 September 2005, Pontevedra

Pontevedra

Pontevedra is a city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the comarca and province of Pontevedra, in Galicia . It is also the capital of its own municipality which is, in fact, often considered as an extension of the actual city...

, Spain

Spain

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) was a maid of John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

 and Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...

 in the Dakota

The Dakota

The Dakota, constructed from October 25, 1880 to October 27, 1884, is a co-op apartment building located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City...

 apartment between 1976 and 1980.

In 2005 she wrote a book in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 reflecting that period: En casa de John Lennon (meaning At John Lennon's House), Hercules Ediciones, ISBN 84-96314-18-9.
The book contains photos of John, Yoko and Sean along with some postcards that John and Yoko sent to her. And anecdotes such as:

• Rosaura explains that she taught Lennon to bake bread.
• One day she unblocked the WC due to a marijuana bag.
• Lennon burned a coffee maker because he forgot to fill it with water
• That Yoko was very superstitious.
• John gave Yoko on her birthdays as carnations as years she did.
• The couple slept on a bedstead supported on two church pews.
• Rosaura spoke with Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman
  Mark David Chapman
  Mark David Chapman is an American prison inmate who murdered former Beatles member John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He committed the crime as Lennon and Yoko Ono were outside of The Dakota apartment building in New York City. Chapman aimed five shots at Lennon, hitting him four times in his back...
  
  , the day before his death in the Dakota entrance.

Rosaura arrived in Queens (New York) in 1962 with her husband Secundino and in 1970, she began work as a cleaner at the Dakota building. When Lennon arrived in 1976, her services were included as part of the rental package.

External links

• Here, you can see her in the photos that appear in the book
• The article of The Independent talking about Rosaura's book