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For those interested I am posting what I have been able to research since my original 2002 inquiry.
In regard to Louise Ulibarri Sanchez (my grandmother) the following is an excerpt from a book entitled, 'Latina's in the United States", Edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez KorrolIndiana University Press, 2006
"Louise Ulibarri Sanchez 1893 – 1983
Became principal of Mountain View Elementary School in Albuquerque, N.M. in 1948
Louise Ulibarri Sanchez, recognized as the first Latina school principal in the Albuquerque public school system, was also a woman who refused to follow the social parameters set for women at the beginning of the twentieth century. Ulibarri was born on June 21, 1893 in Las Vegas, New Mexico, to Marillita Dominique and Jose Ulibarri. Marillita and Jose met when he rode shotgun for Wells Fargo stagecoaches. Marillita gave birth to seven surviving children, of whom Louise was the fourth.
Louise Ulibarri was an excellent student. Bright and inquisitive, she graduated from eighth grade and then
attended New Mexico Western Normal School, which in those days enabled her to teach. Excited about her career, she became a teacher in a one-room school-house at age fourteen in Anton Chico, New Mexico, in 1907. At that time her pupils ranged in age from six to twenty-two years. During the winter, one of her jobs was to start a fire in the wood stove to warm the classroom for the children.
In 1912, Ulibarri married Juan Bautista Sanchez, a cattle rancher, and moved to Duran, New Mexico. She gave birth to five children in her home. The eldest, Frank, went to live with her parents. The youngest, Alfred, died at age two. Despite her domestic obligations, she never stopped teaching and taught in Duran for fifteen years.
She divorced Juan Bautista Sanchez in 1927 because she believed that he was having extramarital affairs. Her
devoutly Roman Catholic family was not in agreement with her decision. Her parents told her that she was a
heretic; her brothers and sister expressed dismay; her uncles and aunts shunned her; and her grandparents told
her no one had ever done such a terrible thing.
After her divorce, Ulibarri attended Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico, to work on
her high school education during the summer while she was still teaching." * One of the five children Louise Ulibarri Sanchez gave birth to was my father, Patricio
Serafin Sanchez. He had brothers,Frank,Earnest, Alfred,
and a sister Rita Minkin.
In regard to my father, Patricio Serafin Sanchez,Whom I have not seen in forty years as my parents had divorced, I found his obituary recently, contents as follows;"Sanchez: Patricio Serafin Sanchez, 74, a resident of Silver Ctiy since 1969, entered life eternal Tuesday morning at his residence.He was born May 21, 1919, to the late Juan
Bautista and Louisa Ulibarra Sanchez in Duran, N.M. He received a bachelor of science degree in agriculture in 1940 from New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in Las Cruces. He then worked for the U.S. Conservation Service between 1940 and 1951. Mr. Sanchez served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II, and from 1948 until 1951, he was assigned to Bogota, Colombia, for the Corps of Engineers. He also attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, earning a bachelor of law degree in 1954 and a doctor of laws award in 1968. He served as assistant district attorney in Santa Fe before moving to Silver City, where he also served as assistant district attorny for several years before returning to the private practice of law throughout the state for 39 years. The memorial service will be held Friday morning at 11 at Baca's Funeral Chapels with David
Strain officiating. Survivors include his wife, Carol of Silver City; two sons, Juan, a student at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, and Pablo, a captain in the U.S. Air Force,stationed in South Korea; a daughter, J. Mercedes Sanchez, and her husband, Harvey Jones,
of Framingham, Mass.; a sister, Rita Minkin, and a brother, Ernest Sanchez, and his wife,Sefora, all of Albuquerue; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, Frank, in 1988; his daughter, Bonnie, in 1949; and a granddaughter,
Maasi Leah Sanchez Fisher in 1988. In lieu of flowers, donations can be directed to the Gila Regional Medical Center Hospice Program. Cremation has been entrusted to the care of Baca's Mimbres Crematory. Entrustedto the care of Baca's Funeral Chapels."
What the obit does not mention is that (nor would I expect a history of his life here) is that prior to Patricio's marriage to his most recent wife Carol, is that he was married three previous times. The two marriages prior to my mother, Betty Fox of Charlotte, N.C., resulted in two daughters (one from each marriage)one of my step sister was named jackie or jacklynn who I remeber very fondly. The second daughter I remember meeting but do not remember her name. The most recent marriage before Carol Sanchez was to my mother Betty Fox. From that marriage, two son's and a daughter were conceived. Patricio Oran(youngest son),William Xavier (eldest son) and a daughter, Pamela Marie.
I still cannot find an obituary for Louise Ulibarri Sanchez. Should anyone have reference too I would greatly appreciate a copy.
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