Maria Borrero, a Puerto Rican immigrant and single mother who rose to key leadership roles that would change how Latinos were treated by health care providers in Hartford and across the country, died Tuesday. She was 70.
“She just had this incredible spirit and determination. She just knew what she wanted and even though a lot of people probably told her things were impossible, she just kept forging ahead,” her daughter, Robin Decker, said. “She just kept on knocking on doors to see which one would open. She never thought ‘I’m going to give up.’ It didn’t even occur to her.