Cantú Torres, Baudelia; Foret, Edith (grandmother/granddaughter). Discovery Green Park, 2009-11-20T14:30:00

File — Interview-ID: MBY005980

Interview Description

Baudelia Cantú Torres (89) is interviewed by her granddaughter, Edith Foret (43) about her family, her childhood in San Diego, TX, and her advice for future generations of her family.

Facilitator Subject Log

3:31 Baudelia is happy to be close to Edith and Edith's daughter Lily; proud of her girls, names her children and grandchildren

10:23 Spanish was Baudelia's primary language; learning English at school; being the oldest she had to help her mother with the children; only 6 siblings survived

22:19 What Baudelia is most proud of?; thank God, thanks to her parents; becoming a mother herself

26:28 went back to school for nursing; advice regarding education; start reading to her great grandchildren; thanking family for encouragement you received as a child

36:40 remembering the good times; how her friends will remember her; "Life is the most precious thing "; helping anyone