Perez, Inez Najar; Estrada, Tony; Rios, Christy (grandmother, grandson, granddaughter). East L.A. Public Library, 2010-03-10T10:30:00

File — Interview-ID: MBY006294

Interview Description

Inez Perez tells her grandchildren, Tony Estrada and Christy Rios about their family history, her life growing up and meeting and marrying her husband, Tony Perez.

Facilitator Subject Log

01:12 Inez's parents' names and her family name, Najar. Their emigration from Mexico to El Paso and then Pasadena.

06:24 Inez remembers meeting Tony Perez, her future husband at a restaurant. They were married two weeks later with an El Paso taxi driver as a witness.

18:26 Inez's children: DIana, Patricia and Sheila who was born with down syndrome and who Inez has cared for all of her life.

21:12 Importance of education, Inez's advice to her descendants and words for those who may listen after she is gone "It was great being alive. " The importance of family.

26:47 Memories from the morning of Pearl Harbor and going to work in the fields picking tomatoes, cucumbers, walnuts and flowers during World War II.

31:50 Tony Perez's family and growing up. The advice he gave his grandchidlren, Tony and Christy that stays with them to this day.