University of Texas at El Paso ScholarWorks@UTEP Combined Interviews Institute of Oral History 5-3-1983 Interview no. 611 Rosa R. Guerrero Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.utep.edu/interviews Part of the Oral History Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Interview with Rosa R. Guerrero by Paulina Aldrete, 1983, "Interview no. 611," Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Institute of Oral History at ScholarWorks@UTEP. It has been accepted for inclusion in Combined Interviews by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UTEP. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Rosa Guerrero May 3, 1983 Interviewed by: Paulina Aldrete at Rosa Guerrero Dance Studio, El Paso, TX. RG: My name is Rosa Guerrero and I will tell you a little bit about my family background. I was born in EI Paso, TX, and my parents came from Mexico. I remember my grandparents, my mother's side only; I never met my father's parents. My grandfather, my mother's father, was from Jalapa, Veracruz, and my grandmother from Toluca, Mexico. They were beautiful people. They were divorced or separated a long time because my grandmother followed Pancho Villa during the Revolution. She wanted to really follow the footsteps of what he believed in, and she was a cook for him. Later on, she evolved to be the cook for the president, Manuel Avila Camacho. My grandfather was more a conservative man, hardworking man. He had a sombrereria, a hat factory in Jalapa, Veracruz.