Re: My Father's Immigration

My father, Guadalupe Olague, born in Jerez, Zac. on January 28, 1903, immigrated to the US via Juarez-El Paso in 1913. He had legal alien status. His father and grandmother and sister settled in Brush, Morgan County, Colorado, where I was born in 1939. In 1941 my father, at my mother's insistence (she was a native of New Mexico), became a Naturalized Citizen. During WWII, my father and his uncle and cousins relocated to Northern California where they obtained jobs in defense plants. He had sent my mother, my sister and myself to my mother's relatives in New Mexico. My father was a welder at the shipyards that were building the Liberty ships. After the war, he went to work as a welder for Westinghouse in Sunnyvale, CA, and he sent for us around 1948 and they bought a house in San Jose near Willow Glen. My husband's mother and siblings also moved to California around the same time from El Paso, TX. My husband was a friend of one of my cousins. We married in 1962 and lived in Silicon Valley until 1996 when we retired and moved to Washington State. My sister and her sons have moved to Las Vegas, NV. Our parents are buried in San Jose at Calvary Cemetery.