Career
Urzúa Flores was born in the town of Jocotepec, Jalisco, to José Urzúa Gutiérrez, a musician, and Rosario Flores Monroy, a schoolteacher from San Martín de Hidalgo. Her maternal grandfather Gerardo Flores was a physician who, at the request of Benito Juárez, settled in San Martín de Hidalgo. The localities of San Martín de Hidalgo and El Tepehuaje de Morelos have honored Urzúa Flores" memory by naming a street (G Urzúa) and a public library (María Guadalupe Urzúa Flores Municipal Public Library) after her, respectively.