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(Photo at left) Francisca Acosta Sanchez (circa 1950.) Excerpts from Memoirs of Rodney Sparkman Jr."I want the whole world to know that my mother loved all her children. She was a beautiful woman in many ways. She raised us the best way she knew how. Mom was a child of the Great Depression and had a very difficult life. Despite her shortcomings, no one can doubt that she wanted her children, grand-children, and posterity to be successful and educated. She worked hard to ensure we had opportunities that were never available to her. Mom wanted a posterity that would remember her in her best light. Of course, she had her momentary lapses of anger and even hostility, but that only showed she was human. Without hesitation, she would lavish us all with a love that only a caring mother could bestow upon her children. Some in the family thought that she smothered us with her love. Perhaps that's true. However, I miss that unwavering, warm embrace. I felt at peace in her loving arms." "The gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints played a pivotal part in her life. It gave her focus and perspective. It helped her understand that a better life can be created here on earth once we know who we are, where we come from, and where we are going. She cherished the notion and later, the fact, that she could be part of a forever family. There is no doubt in my mind that she has received her measure of her creation and that she is an Angel on High. To me, she was my Angel. She was my mother." "Francisca Acosta (See Photo above.) was born on 07 June 1930 to Aurelio Lujan Acosta[1] and Manuela Sanchez[2] on a ranch in Leon Valley, Pecos, Texas. This ranch is located near the town of Fort Stockton, Texas (See the map below.). She is the oldest daughter of an uneducated, self-taught, hard-working, migrant worker. She was the first child of six born into a troubled home where her father's alcoholism and her mother's emotional and physical rejections were her constant companions." For more excerpts, click on the Timeline on the left and then click on 1930. See the URL: See the URL: Map of Pecos, Texas.
Reeves County hyperlink: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txreeves/index.htm "Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart." [1] 06 February 1906. [2] 02 October 1913. Hits since 30 Nov 2008: |
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