A Walk Around the Colony

My thanks to my cousin, Catherine Austin Thomas, for sending me this video that Herman Lowenberg filmed during the July 1986 Avalos Reunion. The clip below was filmed right after mass at Iglesia San Jose. I’m hoping those who attended the reunion can help identify homes and people so I can display the names [...]

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Kids in the Colony

These wonderful photos are courtesy of my cousin Catherine Austin Thomas, who lived in the Colony from 1931-1948. Of this first photograph she says, “My back is toward the camera – Grace Austin is next to me. Sybil Bonnell is standing. She was L.B. and his wife’s niece whom they always cared for. [...]

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A Few Avalos Friends

My mom was here over the weekend and brought some photos she took a couple of weeks ago when she had lunch with some friends from Avalos. From left to right: Dora Rodriguez, Cuquita Flores Lowenberg, Sister Grace Lowenberg, Joe (Pepe) Lowenberg, Flossy Wilson Delgado, and J. Elena Navarro.

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Quinta #21 in the Colony

A couple of photos taken at the 1994 Avalos Reunion. In one photo my mother Flossy Wilson Delgado is peering into her home. When she lived there, the front porch was not enclosed. The home had three bedrooms, one bath, livingroom/diningroom, kitchen, a pantry between the diningroom and kitchen, and a back patio. [...]

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The Wildman’s of Avalos

My thanks for these wonderful photos to Al and Yola Wildman Nugent, Helen Wildman Bell and Horatio Wildman, Jr., children of Superintendent Horatio Wildman, Sr. and his wife Carmen (“Chata”) Wildman de Gonzalez de Beovide. The Wildman’s lived in Avalos from 1946-1954 while their father, Horatio Wildman, Sr. was Superintendent of the Mill. During [...]

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Vintage Views of the Smelter

These photos, courtesy of Gabriel Díaz-Montemayor, an architect, landscape architect and Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University, show the Ávalos smelter in production mode.

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Los Murales de Leandro Carreón

Magdalena Lobo-Guerrero shares one of her memories of her life growing up in Las Cuadras and visiting the train station with her father and siblings. Inside the station, murals painted by artist Leandro Carreón depicted the two main industries in Chihuahua at the time: mining and cattle. Magdalena is the daughter of Enrique Lobo-Guerrero [...]

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Baseball and the First Pitch

The photo below, courtesy of Yola Wildman Nugent, shows her father, Horatio Wildman, Sr. throwing out the first pitch for an Avalos baseball game. Mr. Wildman was Superintendent of the Mill from 1946-1954. The Wildman family included Horatio Wildman, Sr., his wife, Carmen (“Chata”) Wildman de Gonzalez de Beovide, two daughters, Helen Carmen (Wildman) [...]

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Centro Médico de Chihuahua and Dr. Calvete, Medical Director at the Avalos Smelter

Below is an obituary for Dr. Ricardo Calvete Palau which appeared in the July 23, 1960 El Paso Herald Post.
Also, a February 5, 1949 article from El Pueblo about the opening of Centro Médico de Chihuahua. Many doctors, including Dr. Calvete, and dignitaries from Chihuahua and Mexico City are mentioned. I’m including the article [...]

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Morris Daughters in El Paso

Below is a 1987 photo of my grandmother, Catherine Morris Wilson, Tom Lewis, Ashley (granddaughter of Catina Wilson Shupe), Julia Morris Lewis and my son and grandson to Flossy Wilson Delgado, Paul, taken at my grandmother’s home in El Paso, Texas. My grandmother Catherine and great-aunt Julia lived in the Colony from about the [...]

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