Another Wonderful Day Remembering Traditions of the Fathers

The Charro, An Elegante Mexican Cowboy

These two photographs bring back vague recollections of my early childhood when we lived in San Antonio. Our family moved to Chicago when I was four and a half. I remember the parades we would go to in downtown San Antonio in October. The Charros would dress in their costumes much like the Mariachis. The music reminds me of my childhood and has familiar tunes that bring tears to my eyes because I know that my ancestors dressed in these familiar suits. They played trumpets, guitars, and played violins as part of their entertainment to the crowds.

This is actually Jose Angel--> Lopez, Jr. Son of Jose Angel Lopez, Sr. and Nestora Garcia Who just may be the mystery man in the group Mariachi Band.

Below you can see a picture of a group of Mariachis. One of my great-grand fathers performed in a Mariachi band. Quite a treasure to capture the band in this group. That base Sax is held by him. No wonder I like Kenny G!

I always believed this photo was of Felicano Recio, Sr. But, then again it could be Jose Angel Lopez, Sr, instead who was the second spouse to my great-grandmother, Nestora Garcia. This is a mystery that one of my second cousins mentioned once that she did not recognize the musician as "our" great-grandfather, Feliciano Recio. This is what my mother had always recounted. But I found a (head shot)picture of Nestora's second husband and the back of the photo said, J"oe's" dad, or father. It had a striking resemblance to the latter than the former great-grandfather. Astounding, is all I can comment about this.

Nestora Garcia--my mother's grandmother, wife of Feliciano Recio


This is the great-grandfather I always thought was Feliciano Recio, Nestora's first husband and father to Anita Recio, he was my mother's maternal grandfather.


Photos of Dia De Los Muertos



Mexican Mariachi Bands today.


Eduiges Ulloa Rodriguez, widow about 1920 with her family.
This is a family picture of my paternal grandfather, Ricardo Rodriguez. It is the only picture I have in my computer. I have others of him but somehow have not put them on disc yet, same as those of my own father's pictures that I have in a box to copy. Today, was his 111th birthday, he was born March 28, 1888. He died at age 95, on November 9, 1983. His wife, my grandmother, Maria, died four years later that same month with a week of his passing, November 14, 1987.