teaches family about importance of work ethic
Before moved his wife, Rosa, and seven children to the South side 60 years ago, they shuttled across Texas, picking cotton and living in temporary quarters.
In Barbour Uk 1953, after decades of hard work injured his back, he bought a small home near Somerset Road. After tending the yards of attorneys and doctors in Alamo Heights he'd return to the abode that became a refuge for him and his family.
Recently, he Nike Free 5.0 Uk lay on his bed, resting his sore back, as Tejano songs played from an old tabletop radio. His daughters, , 77, , 60, and , 69, talked about how years stooped over, picking crops led to his bad back.
"It was hard work but I had to do it," De la Rosa interpreted for Morales. "I always had to keep going, I had to feed my family. Tiffany Bracelet Uk I relied a lot on my religion, I'm very thankful to God."
Two of Morales' children were already working with him during the early years of the bracero program that allowed Mexican nationals to work temporary agriculture jobs in the United States from 1942 to 1964. An overwhelming number of migrants across the nation are still of Mexican descent, said , associate professor of bicultural bilingual studies at the .
"They're our unsung heroes," Snchez said. "People always refer to Midwest farmers as "salt of the earth." I think the nation should include these migrant workers who have done so much to put food on our tables."
Alfonso met Rosa when they worked on farms in LaCoste. They fell for each other and married in 1935 at St. Alfonso's . He was 22, she was 17.
He bought their home when it was just two rooms. Over the years Morales and his sons added three more rooms. They drew water from a spigot in the front yard before the city annexed the area. They had an outhouse behind the house, near a garden hose Morales had rigged as a shower.
In 1963, landscaping became the family's source of income. For 50 years, he mowed lawns, trimmed trees, planted flower beds and picked up leaves with his family alongside him. Morales worked until he was 90.
On Aug. 4, more than 50 members of the Morales' family surrounded him as Cheap Louis Vuitton Bags Uk his daughters presented him with a birthday cake celebrating 100 years. Peuterey Jackets Uk He and his wife still live in their home.
stood near a corner shrine, crowded with porcelain figures of saints as his grandfather blew his candles out. He said Morales taught him lessons he still lives by.
"It was instilled in all of us. You're supposed to be the best," Garcia said. "That was our work ethic."
The family surprised Morales with a mariachi trio that serenaded him with songs he'd sung in the fields. He smiled and, like a priest bestowing a blessing, raised his hand, leathery and rough from a life of hard labor, and kept time with the music.
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