Alicia Niebla Hernandez's Obituary
My mother Alicia Niebla Hernandez was born on Feb. 7the, 1931 in the small village of Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico....which was a farming village, that grew many crops including sugar cane...and it had a large sugar mill, that employed many of my mom's family members and many of the residents . I remember as you approach the village a strong smell of molasses was always in the air. Another source of income was the Sea of Cortez, and it brought in the fishing industry, lots of fresh seafood. My mother's health benefited the rest of her life from the clean eating of unprocessed food.
At the age of 14 my mother came to live with her eldest sister in Tijuana, to help take care of her sister's children while her sister worked. At the age of 17, my mother got a passport, and she and her sister would get a day pass at the border crossing to work . They both worked as domestic day workers for a doctor in Bonita, California ....the doctor would pick them up at the border and return them to the border, she was very happy as the doctor had a orchard full of fruit trees, and she would fill up bags of fruit to give to my mom and her sister, she was a very.kind and generous person..
When my mom was 17, she went to a cannery dance with her sister and she met my dad, Guillermo (Willie) Durazo, (RIP 1999) whom she dated, and then at the age of 18 she married my 22 year old dad, they had 4 children. Their 1st child a daughter Cassandra N. Durazo, 1950, followed by a son Guillermo A. Durazo, Jr. 1952, a daughter Belen G. Durazo 1953, and finally her 4th child a daughter Maria de Los.Angeles Durazo, 1955, who died shortly after birth.
My mother Alicia N. Hernandez, divorced my dad.
In 1971, my mother married Pedro (Pete) Hernandez, (RIP 1989) and help him raised his 3 children a daughter Lorraine Hernandez 1954, a son Peter A. Hernandez 1960, (RIP 1992) and finally.a daughter Marlene A. Hernandez 1963.
My mother worked very hard in the construction industry, she worked as part of a construction clean up crew, for 20 years, she also worked as a domestic day worker, and in the resturant industry. , and in the tuna cannery as a fish cleaner, she finally ended up working the last 20 years as a senior custodian for UCSD Medical Center., and retired in 1992.
My mother proudly became a US Citizen in 1992, and voted for the 1st time in her life.
My mother suffered for the last 30 years with COPD and all it's complications, including the combination of congestive lung and heart failure, and subcomed to the disease on March 27th, 2020....My mother was kind and generous throughout her life, always helping her extended family members and others, and was a real energetic mom, always loving all her children and her grandchildren beyond words...she leaves all of her children with so many blessings of a family rich with so many happy memories ...
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