AdvertisementFinding A Long-Lost Father As Spain Exhumes Decades-Old Mass GravesFebruary 26, 2016Lauren FrayerfacebookEmailAscensión Mendieta, 90, visits the mass grave where her father, Timoteo Mendieta, was buried in 1939. She saw him for the last time when she was 13. Two years ago, she became the plaintiff in a case to allow Spain's mass graves to be exhumed. (Lauren Frayer for NPR)