HIDALGO COUNTY HERALD
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Manuel V. Aguilera
Manuel V. "Caps" Aguilera.
80, a lifelong resident of
Lordsburg passed away Tuesday
September
27, 2011 at
Memorial
Medical
Center • in
Las Cruces.
Visita-
tion was Fri-
day evening,
September
30, 2011
Manuel V. "Caps" from 5 to 6 at
Aguilera St. Joseph's
Catholic
Church where a prayer vigil be-
gan at 6 with Manuel Ramirez
leading the vigil service. Mass
of the Resurrection was Saturday
morning at 10 at St. Joseph's
Catholic Church with Fr. John
Weber officiating. Concluding
services and interment followed
at Shakespeare Cemetery.
Manuel was born December
29. 1930 in Lordsburg to Reyes
and Brunn Villalobos Aguilera.
He worked for Southern Pacific
Railroad for many years and was
General Foreman when he retired
in 1992. After retirement he
opened Manny's Auto Repair and
-was active in daily business until
just recently. He enjoyed the out-
doors, going hunting and fishing
but most of all enjoyed being
with his family and especially
loved being with his grandchil-
dren. Manuel was a lifelong
member of St. Joseph's Catholic
Church.
He is survived by his daugh-
ters. Jenny Aguilera and Josie
Mafinez both of Lordsburg; sons.
Gilbert Aguilera of Lordsburg,
Stephen Aguilera and his wife
Eva of Tucson. AZ. David
Aguilera of Las Cruces, Michael
Weekly Inqdration
500k word reader
Harrison Higginbotham has
read 500,000 words at Central
Elementary School. Congratu-
lations Harrison!
Romero of Tucson. AZ; brother,
Reymundo Ortega of Albuquer-
que: sisters. Lucy McDougal of
Albuquerque, Soilita Ortega of
Phoenix. AZ; 15 grandchildren
and 19 great grandchildren.
Manuel was preceded in death by
his wife Soila. 3 brothers. 2 sis-
ters and 2 grandsons.
Pallbearers were Stephen,
Manny and Stephen Jay Aguilera,
Ruben Marinez, Colton Barker,
and Richard Andrade. Honorary
bearers were Gilbert and David
Aguilera. Michael Romero. Nick
Pahimbo Jr., Andres Candelaria,
Gilbert Aguilera, Jr. and Christo-
pher Marinez.
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Carmela Cavaliere
Carmela "Cam" Cavaliere,
86. of Parsippany, NJ. died on
Wednesday, Sept. 28t after a long
illness.
Cam was a home maker who
was well known and well loved
in her town. She was secretary of
District 5 o'f the Parsippany Fire
Department. vice-president of the
Lake Hiawatha Citizen's Club.
members of St. Anne's Bereave-
ment Support Group, the
Parkinson's Support Group, and
many others worthwhile groups
and organizations.
She was preceded in death"
by her husband of 54 years. Tho-
mas Cavaliere. She is survived by
her sons Thomas, Santa Fe. NM,
Frank (wife Tina/ Fruita, Colo-
rado. Bill (wife Jill) Portal. AZ.,
Dave. Lake Hiawatha. NJ, daugh-
ter Helen Leba. Boonton Town-
ship, N J, nine beloved grandchil-
dren. and one cherished great-
grandson.
Viewings will be held at the
Par-Troy Funeral Home, 95
Parsippany Rd., Parsippany, NJ,
on Sunday, Oct. 2rid and Mon-
day, Oct 3. with the funeral on
Tues.. Oct. 4th.
Andres S. Hernandez
Neal reads 500k words
Lillyan Neal has read 500,000
words at Central Elementary
School. Congratulations
Lillyan!
Andres S. Hernandez, 9.8,
died September 26, 2011 at Bee-
hive Assisted Living Facility in
Edgewood New Mexico.
Andres was a first generation
American.
born Feb. 4.
1913 in
Deming
New Mexico
to Altagracia
Saldana and
Norberto
Hernandez.
They moved
weddings to legalize rights of
property ownership, spousal
rights and rights of children.
In 1960 Andres returned to
New Mexico. By then, 1961, JFK
created a new era with Sergeant
Shriver creating the Peace Corp.
Andres was hired to start the pro-
gram in Bolivia, but with the
death of Trujillo he was appointed
director of the Dominican Repub-
lic. By 1962 young Peace Corp
volunteers arrived to create a new
exciting program. This new spirit
brought dozens of young people
Andres S.
Hernandez grew up at-
tending the
Wilson School and Lordsburg
High School, (working at the
Holland Hotel, as a student) ex-
celling academically, lettering m
football, basketball, and track.
and an active Boy Scout and
scout master. Graduating at 16.
he attended with a scholarship
Bradley University in Peoria, Il-
linois. This started Andres on his
life long journey of service and
travel across the world.
Forced to Leave Bradley due
to a football injury, he joined the
CCC in Southem N.M. Because
of his demeanor and willingness
to work, he was promoted to a
staff position working with the
U.S. forest Service in the Carson
National Forest in Taos with
Pascual Martinez. meeting many
of the artists and intellectuals.
including Mabel Dodge Lujan
and Patrocino Barela. He was
hired as assistant director under
UNM Dr. J.T. Reid and the
Carnegie Foundation to create
the Taos County Project, one of
the first community development
programs in the world.
He was a member of the N.M.
National Guard, but his member-
ship had expirbd just prior to their
deployment to the Philippines.
Seeing his friends leave left him
in a moral dilemma, especially
after their capture and surrender
to the Japanese. Andres joined
the Army, serving in North Africa,
and at the Normandy, D-Day
Landing, Battle of the Bulge,
crossing of the Rhine. and the
invasion and final surrender of
Germany. He was also was
present in the liberation of POW
camps and concentration camps.
He studied at theUniversity of
Edinburgh, studying water man-
agement and well drilling in
North Africa. He also worked at a
small cottage machine part manu-
facturing in Switzerland for
watch and lens production. He
had the opportunity to meet and
interview the Spanish Diplomats
who were interned in Switzerland
as they fled Berlin prior to the
arrival of the Russians.
Returning to Las Vegas, NM
in 1946 as a V.A. Officer to North
Eastern New Mexico to reinte-
grate returning vets, he met his
future wife. Amelia Hinojos
Anaya. He was also a returning
vet working with the N.M. Em-
ployment Dept. trying to reinte-
grate returr]ing veterans. They
married on May 29 1947, having
their son, Isidro. in 1949.
In 1954 he joined Interna-
tional Development Services.
part of the Ford Foundation team
to build the Aswam Dam in Egypt.
Nasser came to Power. kicking the
Americans out. leaving the team
without a mission. Carlos
Castillo Armas ousted the leftist
government in Guatemala. The
team was sent to help resettle and
restore private land ow.nership
and the rule of law. The team re-
settled hundreds of families with
their own farms, creating hous-
ing, drinking water, roads, tech-
nical support, schools and medi-
cal services. Andres directed the
building of roads and schools, and
to serve. The program grew to an
to Lordsburg amazing success. This was a shin-
where "he ing star" for the volunteers, the
Peace Corp staff and the U.S. Gov-
ernment and Andres himself. Af-
ter 30 months he was transferred
to the Guatemalan program.
Andres returned to Santo
Domingo during the uprising to
mediate the warring factions and
to secure the safety of the P.C.
volunteers. He was also privy to
the upcoming Cuban Missile cri-
sis, trying to secure the safety of
the volunteers from leftist attacks
or to anti American backlash.-The
Peace Corps only allowed five
years of service so Andresjoined
USAID in Guatemala, working as
a field specialist still helping
building roads schools, water
projects and medical services. He
became a counter insurgency of-
ricer helping to undermine the
communist insurgency. This was
done by bringing economic help,
water projects, schools, coops for
agricultural programs, arts and
crafts. Small manufacturing.
During his many years of ser-
vice he had the opportunity to
meet Fidel Castro prior to the revo-
lution, President John Kennedy
and Jacqueline. his brother Jack
President Johnson and Lady Bird
and many dignitaries, European,
North American and Latin Ameri-
can notables. He was at home
with all and a friend to all, espe-
cially those in need. In 1971
Andres retired and returned to
New Mexico and Santa Rosa, re-
building the old Anaya family
home. Still active and dynamic.
he joined the board of N.M.
Health Systems Agency, working
to bring better health care to the
rural areas of the state. He helped
establish a corporation that still
exists that recruits doctors, den-
tists, and nurses for underserved
areas. He gave endless hours and
trips lobbying to fulfill the needs
of the underserved. He joined the
Santa Rosa Rotary Club with Sam
Brown. Walt Eastland and Tom
Johnson to reopen the closed
Guadalupe Co. Hospital. They
worked to recruit a doctor, bring-
ing Dr. Lee. reopened the hospi-
tal and created scholarships to
train nurses and health care pro-
fessionals. Their success is the
existence of the hospital and the
staff needed to run it. Active in
AARP and NARFE, Andres was
very active in protecting the ben-
efits of the elderly and retired that
are constantly being attacked by
the cost cutting legislatures. He
saw the need to defend thosb who
were the weakest, poorest, serv-
ing on countless committees trav-
eling throughout the state bring-
ing the message of help unify and
motivation in bringing change,
empowering .
Andres is survived by his
son, Isidro; daughter-in=law Lyda;
granddaughter Marirosa; and
great-grandson Amadeus (Moo),
a toddler; three sisters, Eulalia
Hernandez of Lordsburg,
Frandisca Trebizo of California,
and Emma Madrid of Tucson Ai'i-
zona: and many nephews ahd
nieces.
He was l~receded in death by
three brothers, Refugio. Carlos
and Ramon: three sisters Manuela
Diaz. Antonia Leyba and
Genoveva Marinez.
ran a team that drilled over 30 wa- Andres's bod" was cremated
ter wells in one year before tum Y
Barka, Bejaran0 read 100k words . - and funeral (memorial) services
mg the program over to the Gun
- will be held first in Lordsburg on
Cody Barka and Armando Bejarano have each read 100,000 words temalan government. Andres and October 10 2011 at 10 a m st
Amelia were padrinos to mass ' " '
at Central Elementary School. Congratulations! Courtesy photo Joseph'sCatholic Church in
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Lordsburg. A second funeral mass
will be held in Santa Rosa on
October 14 at 1O a.m. in Puerto
de Luna, officiated by Rev. Fa-
• ther Irby (dick) Nichols. A third
will be held in Santo Domingo,
Republica Dominicana in
Februrary 2012 at the fiftieth an-
niversary reunion of the EC.V's.
In lieu of Flowers a donation
can be made to the Walt Eastland
Scholarship fund through the
Santa Rosa Rotary Club, or to the
Andres Hernandez Foundation, a
501 C3 corporation founded by
the Peace Corp Volunteers pro-
viding scholarships for education
hess. Nancy was not only
George's wife but his partner,
friend and lover.
She was very active in the
New Mexico Farm and Livestock
Bureau, the New Mexico Cattle
Growers , the Copper Cowbelles
and the Tobosa Belles. Nancy
was the arena director and chair-
woman of the Cliff-Gila Fair Jun-
ior Rodeo Committee for many
years. She also was in charge of
the beef concession stand for the
Tobosa Belles and Cattle Grow-
ers at the Hidalgo County Fair.
Nancy is survived by her hus-
band George Jackson, Jr,; daugh-
and community development ters Stacy Zunich and Connie
projects in the Dominican Repub- (Stewart) Rooks; four grandchil-
lic (Jess Stone 208-305-3692). dren Todd (Elsie) Jackson, Sammi
Nancy Gall Jackson
Nancy Gall Jackson passed
away on September 27, 2011 in
Lordsburg, New Mexico at age 65.
She was born May 4, 1946 to
James W. (Bill) and Daisy Phelps
in Fall River,
Massachu-
setts where
she resided
the first 10
years of her
life. Nancy
spent the
summers at
Zunich, Calvin (Amy) Rooks and
Kelsey Rooks; and three great
grandchildren Keith Jackson,
Tyler Jackson and Callie Rooks.
She is also survived by her
father James W. Phelps, Sr.;.step-
mother Grace Phelps; mother -in-
law Dorothy Jackson; sister
Linda (Richard) Hall; brother's -
in-law Tom (Thorma) Jackson,
Joe (Melba) Jackson and Sandy
Phelps sister-in-law; and numer-
ous nephews and nieces.
Nancy was preceded in death
by her mother Daisy I. Phelps,
brother James W. Phelps Jr. and
h e r Father-in-law George Jackson Sr.
grandparent's Nancy will always be remem-
Nancy Gail cottage on a bered for her love of life, people, "]
Jackson p r i v a t e her animals and her big ready
b e a c h , smile. Bright/Lordsburg Funeral
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The winter of'1955-56 Senior s
brought 2 blizzards within 1
week that left snow drifts to the
eaves of their2story home~ Her
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parents decided then to move to
a wanner climate. The summer of
1956 her family and grandparents
moved to Albuquerque, New
Mexico where they lived for 3
years. Nancy got her first horse
here and learned to ride.
In 1959 her father got a job •
in northern Utah and the family
and grandparents moved to
Hyrum, Utah in Cache Valley.
In December of 1963 they all
moved once again to Pleasanton,
California and Nancy spent the
last half of her senior year here.
Her father went to Saudi Arabia
for a year x-raying welds on oil
pipe lines. While he was there
the family decided to move back
to New Mexico and got in touch
with a real estate broker named
George Jackson. Sr. In June of
1964 they rented a house from
Mr. Jackson in Gila, New Mexico.
It was there that Nancy met
the love of her life George JaCk-
son, Jr. and they were married
December 24, 1964 in Gila.
Nancy and Gerrge spent the next
46 years residing in Grant and
Hidalgo counties in Southwest
New Mexico ranching and the
Insurance and Real Estate busi-
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Monday, October 10
Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce
With Parmesan Cheese
Broccoli/Cheese Sauce
Garlic Bread
. Peaches
Tuesday, October 11
Baked Pork Loin
Rice Pilaf
Peas & Carrots
Dinner Roll
Jell-o W/Pineapple
Wednesday, October 12
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Vegetable Soup
Crackers
Apricots/Topping
Thursday, October 13
Green Chile Chicken Enchilada
Pinto Beans
Calabacitas
Spinach Salad/Dressing
Jell-O/Mixed Fruit
Friday, October 14
Beef Stew
Tater Tots
Chuck Wagon Blend Vegetables
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