Sonja Britton: Growing up on Old Route 66
Comfortably seated in her warm and inviting home, tastefully adorned with the gifts from a life in...
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Category: Old Timers
Rita Loy Simmons: Forging her own path
“I’m known as Rita Loy.” At 80 years old, although diminutive in stature Rita Loy Simmons speaks with a dignified and kind voice. “My grandfather walked through the snow from Edgewood to get to my birth at Rohoboth Mission....
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Estancia’s Bernadine Dial: A life of variety
In her youth, her family had a small dairy herd and it was her job to milk 10 cows every morning...
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Socorro Hernandez: Dignity in hard work on the rancho
He is a small man, but even at age 87 has large hands which are gnarled with the work of decades...
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Alpha Schweedler: A caretaker’s quiet faith sustains her
Alpha Schweedler says she was named “Alpha” because her father was in the University when she was...
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Steve & Donna Garcia: 64 Years of Marriage
She was born during the Great Depression to a truck-driving father who didn’t support his family,...
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Don Youman — Veteran, family man, and locksmith
Don Youman has rushed to the front lines to save guys in war; he knows how to perform a...
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Old Timer Alma Wimsatt
Alma Wimsatt caressed the blue and yellow soup tureen she had made with gnarled hands, as if she...
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The ‘Google for us older folks’ is a lady named Jo
Josephine Bassett’s house is bustling with activity seven days a week. Her sons run a construction...
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Old Timers: Torrance County’s first female county commissioner
By Judith Costello Thirty-two years ago, Shirley Davis (now Shirley Maldonado) became the first...
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Benjamin Perea: ‘I like to talk to people in their own language’
By Judith Costello He comes to the door slowly, his body forming a 90-degree angle. Benjamin...
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