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ELINVESTIG8R
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With profound sadness I report that my mami Anita Grosso Espinoza "Mama Espinoza" passed away peacefully at her home in El Rosario at 5:30 AM on
Saturday March 12, 2016. She was a great lady who took care of me during a tough time in my life as a young boy. She will be laid to rest at 2:00 PM
today at the El Rosario cemetery accompanied by her family and friends. Mami is now in heaven with our Heavenly Father. I will miss her so very much.
I love you mami.
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Quote: Originally posted by ELINVESTIG8R  | | With profound sadness I report that my mami Anita Grosso Espinoza "Mama Espinoza" passed away peacefully at her home in El Rosario at 5:30 AM on
Saturday March 12, 2016. She was a great lady who took care of me during a tough time in my life as a young boy. She will be laid to rest at 2:00 PM
today at the El Rosario cemetery accompanied by her family and friends. Mami is now in heaven with our Heavenly Father. I will miss her so very much.
I love you mami. |
....and best wishes to you Elin,, it's very clear mamaE meant a lot to you. Mama's looking over us all now 
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EnsenadaDr
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Mood: Move on. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book- just turn the page
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Nancy Reagan and her are sharing jokes with Pancho Villa and Ronnie in that great ranch in the sky!
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chippy
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I think Nancy, Ronnie and Francisco are probably in a hotter subterranean local.
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EnsenadaDr
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Haha good one!! However, let's hope there is no political agenda in the afterlife.
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DEP, mi mas sentido pesame para ti David M.
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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Wow, what a legend, go with God Mama Espinoza.
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larryC
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The math doesn't add up, if she was born in '08 she didn't quite make 109. Close enough for me though. What a nice lady.
Larry
Off grid, 12-190 watt evergreen solar panels on solar trackers, 2-3648 stacked Outback inverters, 610ah LiFePo4 48v battery bank, FM 60 and MX60
Outback charge controllers, X-240 Outback transformer for 240v from inverters, 6500 watt Kubota diesel generator.
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David K
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She was indeed fascinating!
In her book:
and Greg's book:
She was a super lady!
[Edited on 3-16-2016 by David K]
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K |
What is interesting is all newer books (including one she autographed for me in person and said had the "true story" of her life, makes her even
younger with the birth in August 1910 (making her 'only' 105 yesterday, instead of 107)...
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In the 1930 Mexico Census, her age was shown as 22. She's Anita Grosso on the last line on that image (line 31), her mother Tecla is on the line above.
As that census was taken on May 15th, 1930, at age 22 she was born either in late 1907 or early 1908. If the October (or August?) birthday is
correct, it would be October 1907, making her now 108. Still a good age to reach!
Note she's shown as "divorced" on that census. Her future husband Heraclio is also in the census a few pages earlier (line 15).
Rob
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chippy
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Thanks David.
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What an amazing person Mama Espinoza. I always enjoyed stopping to visit and eat during ever since I was a kid and thought that she was a successful
person in life that I aspire to be like. May she rest in peace.
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I really have to agree on this post. Dona Anita was and now is an angel. Not so much Nancy and Ronnie.
But I also think that it is wrong to politicized her passing.
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ELINVESTIG8R
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REST- IN-PEACE MAMA ESPINOZA
[Edited on 3-15-2016 by BajaNomad]
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pappy
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the first lady of Baja. may she rest in peace....
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David K
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Museo de Doņa Anita (Espinoza-Grosso)
Have you folks been into the museum dedicated to her life?
I posted many photos of it, and one even appeared on the Baja Calendar one year.
Here is a web page with the museum photos (from April 2006): http://vivabaja.com/406/
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hey DK ... no photo resizing suggestion? slipping!
(RIP after a long life M. Espinosa)
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I first met Mama Espinoza at her house in 1971. At that time her kitchen was her restaurant.
If you can believe it, my friends grandmother died the same day as Mama Espinoza and she was also 109. It was believed that she was the oldest woman
in California. Mama Espinoza was born 10/16/1906 and my friends grandmother was born 11/13/1906.
Two wonderful women....they will be missed!
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Oh my .. just saw this thread -- adding our condolences to all who loved Mama E .. she was kind, gentle and gracious on the few occasions I had the
opportunity to interact with her. Another special angel now in heaven.
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BajaGringo
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K |
This October (2016) she would have turned 108, per her own autobiography.
(The newer books say she would turn 106 this year, but they were written by others... and likely using the government records that began in 1910,
according to her.)
So, she was 107 (or 105) when she passed on.
I like to believe her own words over the government bookkeepers of 1910.
It really was a great life and two, three or four years wrong is not a deal after you are 100, is it? Let's just be accurate for history.
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I know Mama's family quite well and I see them quite often. I recently asked a couple of her kids what her real age was? They both assured me that she
celebrated 109 years on her birthday last October. When I asked them about the different ages reported in different books, they both laughed and said
that if you were to ask her how old she was 7 days in a row, you would get seven different answers. She had a very keen memory with many historical
events of her life events but with others, especially her age - not so much. They assured me that the family has lots of documentation,
(baptism/school records) to prove that she was really born in 1906 and found it quite funny that some gringos were actually arguing over it.
They then showed me the photo of the cake from her latest birthday and asked me if the entire family (you had to attend one of her birthdays to
understand the size of the family) was in on this conspiracy to make her older than she really was?
No offense David but I think I will go with their answer...
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