old timers

Old Timer: Vashti ‘Tish’ McMichael, inspiring her family at 102

by Leota Harriman | Jan 16, 2020 | Feature Stories, News | 0 |

At 102 years old, the diminutive Vashti “Tish” McMichael takes her daily 100 laps around the...

Sonja Britton: Growing up on Old Route 66

by Leota Harriman | Dec 13, 2019 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |

Comfortably seated in her warm and inviting home, tastefully adorned with the gifts from a life in...

Estancia’s Bernadine Dial: A life of variety

by Thomas Campbell | Jun 11, 2019 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |

In her youth, her family had a small dairy herd and it was her job to milk 10 cows every morning...

Steve & Donna Garcia: 64 Years of Marriage

by Leota Harriman | Oct 7, 2016 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |

She was born during the Great Depression to a truck-driving father who didn’t support his family,...

Don Youman — Veteran, family man, and locksmith

by Leota Harriman | Sep 12, 2016 | Old Timers | 0 |

Don Youman has rushed to the front lines to save guys in war; he knows how to perform a...

Remembering her father’s Model T and early days of Duran

by Leota Harriman | Jun 3, 2016 | News | 0 |

“I was my daddy’s son because there were only girls before my little brother came,”...

Old Timer Alma Wimsatt

by Leota Harriman | Dec 2, 2015 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |

Alma Wimsatt caressed the blue and yellow soup tureen she had made with gnarled hands, as if she...

The ‘Google for us older folks’ is a lady named Jo

by Leota Harriman | Nov 9, 2015 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |

Josephine Bassett’s house is bustling with activity seven days a week. Her sons run a construction...

Old Timers: Torrance County’s first female county commissioner

by Leota Harriman | Oct 21, 2015 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |

By Judith Costello Thirty-two years ago, Shirley Davis (now Shirley Maldonado) became the first...

Benjamin Perea: ‘I like to talk to people in their own language’

by Leota Harriman | Sep 4, 2015 | Feature Stories, Old Timers | 0 |

By Judith Costello He comes to the door slowly, his body forming a 90-degree angle. Benjamin...

Tag: old timers

Old Timer: Vashti ‘Tish’ McMichael, inspiring her family at 102

Sonja Britton: Growing up on Old Route 66

Estancia’s Bernadine Dial: A life of variety

Steve & Donna Garcia: 64 Years of Marriage

Don Youman — Veteran, family man, and locksmith

Remembering her father’s Model T and early days of Duran

Old Timer Alma Wimsatt

The ‘Google for us older folks’ is a lady named Jo

Old Timers: Torrance County’s first female county commissioner

Benjamin Perea: ‘I like to talk to people in their own language’

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