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Kids in the Colony

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

More Colony photos from the Wildman family which include Horatio Wildman, Jr., Humberto (Tito) Gutierrez, Carolina Gutierrez, Carmen Wildman, Johnny Engleheart, Heather Seaver and caretaker Julieta. My thanks again to Yola (Wildman) Nugent and her husband, Al Nugent and Helen Wildman Bell for sharing these photos. They in turn thank the Gutierrez family for sharing [...]

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Men of the Smelter

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

These photos, courtesy of Coky Bohanon, show four men from the Avalos smelter but we’re unable to identify them. If you happen to know who they are, please comment below or e-mail me at avalos.blog at gmail dot com. Click on the photos for a larger view. Thanks for the photos, Coky!

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Colony Photos from the Gutierrez Family

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My thanks to Tito Gutierrez for sharing the photos below. If you happen to recognize any of the unknown people in the photos, please drop me a line and let me know who they are! Thank you!

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Incendio en el Palacio de Gobierno

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This 1941 article from El Heraldo de Chihuahua details a fire that occurred on June 22, 1941 at the Governor’s Palace in Ciudad Chihuahua and the assistance given by los bomberos de la fundicion de Avalos. My thanks to Eduardo Uranga, Jr. for sharing this wonderful article! For the entire article: Incendio en el Palacio [...]

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A Glimpse into an Avalos and Chihuahua Family History

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My thanks to Humberto (Tito) Gutierrez for the following excerpt from his story, Odds and Ends, which provides a glimpse into the childhood of his mother, Carolina Olivares de Herrera.
“Carolina was married in Chihuahua City, Mexico, when she twenty-two years old. She wed Dr. Humberto Gutierrez Elias, a prominent doctor. In a strange twist of [...]

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Reminiscing with Friends from Avalos

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

On Friday, October 23, 2009, several friends from Avalos gathered for dinner and reminiscing in El Paso, Texas.

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Fourth of July at the Colony

Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s another video from the Wilson family video archive from July 1941 (I think). More to come!

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Birthdays at the Colony

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here are some photos of two birthday parties at the Colony courtesy of my mother, Flossy Wilson Delgado and my cousin, Catherine Austin Thomas. I believe my mom received these pictures from someone else but I need to clarify that. Do you have memories of birthday parties at the Colony?
The next two photos [...]

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The Austin Family…A Few More Words

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My cousin, Catherine Austin Thomas, sent me a lovely write-up about her parents, John Fuller Austin, Jr. and Nellie Wilson.
She begins, “My father was born in 1896 in Murray, Utah while his father was working at the smelter there. His father, a Yale grad, had sense to have the doctor sign a letter so [...]

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