Alfred Jordan y Pacheco Family  
   
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Hi,

 

My name is Christine (Yost) Vaishville.  My mother, Norma (Petersen) Yost is the grand niece of Luis Emeterio Torres Melendez and Amelia Monteverde Morales.  Her grandmother was Dolores Monteverde Grunig.  My mother lived with General Luis E. Torres in the 1316 Westlake Ave Los Angeles home for the last 2 years of his life.  The general was cared for by my mom’s aunt, Amelia Carricarte (a favorite niece of the general), because her own mother suffered from what we now know was manic depression and had been admitted to the state mental institution in Stockton, CA.  When the general died in 1935, her Aunt Amelia returned to her husband in Mexico with her own 3 children, but could not afford to take my mother and her brother and sister with her.  She had no money and could not afford the $4,000 mortgage still owed on the 1316 Westlake home.  My mother and her siblings returned to San Francisco, where they had spent there early youth, and lived as wards of the state in foster homes.  My mom graduated from Balboa High in SF and then UC Berkeley, where she met my father.  They both still reside in the Bay Area.
 
Dolores Monteverde Grunig married George Grunig and had 3 children:  Amelia, Eva (my grandmother) and George (Jr).  Amelia married Roberto Carricarte & had 6 children – Chuy, Loli, Roberto (and 3 others whose names my mom knows). Eva married Rudolph Petersen and had Marie, Norma & William (Bill).  William (Bill) married Shirley and had Kurt and __ (a brother whose name I forget).
 
I have MUCH more information and pictures of the general with my mom, her siblings, Aunt Amelia and her children in Los Angeles and tons of other photos of the general in Hermosillo. Feel free to contact me if anyone wishes to learn more.

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