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 and evening. After she…
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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, and a waitressing mother who was not able to…
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 life-saving tracheotomy using only a knife…
Remembering her father’s Model T and early days of Duran
“I was my daddy’s son because there were only girls before my little brother came,” says Virginia Mora as she smiles at the ancient photo…
Old Timer Alma Wimsatt
Alma Wimsatt caressed the blue and yellow soup tureen she had made with gnarled hands, as if she were reshaping it again. “The clay has…
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 company and cattle ranching business, and the 89-year-old answers…
Old Timers: Torrance County’s first female county commissioner
By Judith Costello Thirty-two years ago, Shirley Davis (now Shirley Maldonado) became the first female County Commissioner in Torrance County. It was Gov. Bruce King…
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 Perea, from Estancia, suffers from a condition that was…