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Aranda Family Letters

FONDS-1088

1941/2018

1000.0 - Record Group Number
2018-007 - Accession

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The collection consists of letters written in Spanish by members of the Aranda family, mostly from Juana Aranda to her brother Manuel Aranda. The collection also includes divorce records for Mary and Manuel Aranda, war ration books, tax withholding statements, and other miscellaneous documents.

Manuel Aranda (1905-1989) was born in Penjamo, Mexico and came to the US through San Francisco in 1925. According to his WWII registration, Manuel was living in Gilroy, CA. On June 29, 1942 Manuel married his first wife, Mary, in Reno Nevada. By 1950 Manuel was living in a bunk house the Grafton District with his wife Mary (1909-?) and her son Manuel Perez and was working as a farm laborer. Mary was working as a janitor for the public school. The couple was divorced in 1952 and on November 6, 1963 Manuel married his second wife Juana Flores (1908-1989). He lived in Yolo and Woodland and worked as a farmworker, and at the Spreckels Sugar Company and Southern Pacific.

Most of the letters in Spanish were translated by Mele Echiburu's 9th grade Spanish immersion class at Emerson Junior High School (Davis Joint Unified School District) in June of 2018.

U10.06