Alejandro "Red" Gonzales was the first child born to Felix Gonzales Hernandez and Crescencia Silvan Hernandez, in Fuentesauco, Province of Zamora, Spain. He and his brother, Juan, along with her parents, uncles, aunts and several cousins emigrated from Spain to the sugar fields of Hawaii on the ORTERIC in 1911.
In January, 1918, his family moved from Hawaii to California, where they eventually bought land at Putah Creek and he grew to adulthood with his eight siblings.
He married Lena Fernandez about 1918 and they had 5 children, one died in infancy. After their divorce, he married Edna Jo Flint and had a second family. They divorced and he married Anna Sandvigen and had one more child, also named Anna.
Red died in Weldon, Kern County, California in September, 1975. Weldon sits at the southeast tip of Lake Isabella near the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains. He loved working in the soil and followed the fruit, packing and eventually worked as foreman in Weldon. He died of throat cancer at age 67 and is buried in the Winters Cemetery, Winters, California.
In January, 1918, his family moved from Hawaii to California, where they eventually bought land at Putah Creek and he grew to adulthood with his eight siblings.
He married Lena Fernandez about 1918 and they had 5 children, one died in infancy. After their divorce, he married Edna Jo Flint and had a second family. They divorced and he married Anna Sandvigen and had one more child, also named Anna.
Red died in Weldon, Kern County, California in September, 1975. Weldon sits at the southeast tip of Lake Isabella near the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains. He loved working in the soil and followed the fruit, packing and eventually worked as foreman in Weldon. He died of throat cancer at age 67 and is buried in the Winters Cemetery, Winters, California.
Alejandro "Red" Gonzales was the first child born to Felix Gonzales Hernandez and Crescencia Silvan Hernandez, in Fuentesauco, Province of Zamora, Spain. He and his brother, Juan, along with her parents, uncles, aunts and several cousins emigrated from Spain to the sugar fields of Hawaii on the ORTERIC in 1911.
In January, 1918, his family moved from Hawaii to California, where they eventually bought land at Putah Creek and he grew to adulthood with his eight siblings.
He married Lena Fernandez about 1918 and they had 5 children, one died in infancy. After their divorce, he married Edna Jo Flint and had a second family. They divorced and he married Anna Sandvigen and had one more child, also named Anna.
Red died in Weldon, Kern County, California in September, 1975. Weldon sits at the southeast tip of Lake Isabella near the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains. He loved working in the soil and followed the fruit, packing and eventually worked as foreman in Weldon. He died of throat cancer at age 67 and is buried in the Winters Cemetery, Winters, California.
In January, 1918, his family moved from Hawaii to California, where they eventually bought land at Putah Creek and he grew to adulthood with his eight siblings.
He married Lena Fernandez about 1918 and they had 5 children, one died in infancy. After their divorce, he married Edna Jo Flint and had a second family. They divorced and he married Anna Sandvigen and had one more child, also named Anna.
Red died in Weldon, Kern County, California in September, 1975. Weldon sits at the southeast tip of Lake Isabella near the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains. He loved working in the soil and followed the fruit, packing and eventually worked as foreman in Weldon. He died of throat cancer at age 67 and is buried in the Winters Cemetery, Winters, California.
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died at 66 yrs old; Mc Narys Chapel
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