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Sunday, 12 January 2014 19:26

Santa Rita Café, 1938

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This is from Rita LeFevre Speer.  Santa Rita, NM was the location of the Chino open-pit copper mine.  It was once the largest open-pit mine in the world.

"My mother, Etna Lancaster,  was an 18 year old waitress at the Santa Rita Café, near Silver City, in 1938. My father, G. B. LeFevre, worked in the copper mine until he joined the Army when WWII broke out. My mother spent the war years back in Fort Worth, TX (near family), where she was a "Rosie the Riveter" at the Ft. Worth bomber plant until the war was over. It wasn't until 1948 or 1949 before they could get back to New Mexico, moving first to Española, then to Santa Fe in 1950, where they lived and raised a family for their remaining years. Bye bye Texas..."

Etna is fourth from the right in this photo.

Sunday, 10 November 2013 17:07

Remembering Two Veterans

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Sunday, 10 November 2013 16:48

Remembering Two Veterans

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