Old Timer: Vashti ‘Tish’ McMichael, inspiring her family at 102
At 102 years old, the diminutive Vashti “Tish” McMichael takes her daily 100 laps around the...
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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...
Read More 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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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,...
Read More 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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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,”...
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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...
Read More 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...
Read More Old Timers: Torrance County’s first female county commissioner
By Judith Costello Thirty-two years ago, Shirley Davis (now Shirley Maldonado) became the first...
Read More 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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