https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/0557ab0cf89ea38565d8c2f3571f6e41.pdf 458f762fe91c0d8e5c11276b2aec9fd2 PDF Text Text FRANK PADILLA Frank Padilla was born at La Jara, New Mexico, (near Cuba) in 1903. His parents, Jose Rafael Padilla and Alcarie (Mestes) Padilla, had three children whenhe was born. They are Beatrice, Amalia and Cleotilde. The Padilla's moved to Arboles, Colorado when Frank was one year old. His father worked for the D. & R.G. W. Railroad building track. His foreman was a Japanese man. The "extra gang", as the Japanese crew was known, created quite a stir of interest since most of the local people had never seen Orientals before and had certainly never seen anyone eat so much rice. Frank says he attended school at Arboles for one year, then went to college at the sheep camp. Sheepherding was Frank's life work. Many of those years he was employed by Salvador Rodriquez, an uncle of Fred Rodriquez. Except for a few trips to Grand Junction and Utah and one memorable trip to Los Angeles, during which he missed a bus connection and toured all over Pueblo and Denver, Frank has spent his whole live in the Arboles/lgnacio area. Frank has never been married. During the interview we teasingly asked him whether he had ever had any girl friends. He set us in our places by replying the only lady he is interested in is the Virgin Mary. Frank's devoted religious faith is well known in this community. If the people of Ignacio were asked to name the person who is the best neighbor in town, Frank would be one of the winners. For many years Frank has taken care of the grounds at the Catholic Church. Since moving to one of the senior center apartments, he has watered and hoed all the fiower beds and swept and cleaned the walks and the parking lot. Every spring Frank visits both the Catholic and the nonCatholic cemeteries to search for untended graves. He removes the weeds and cleans every grave which appears to be neglected. In his daily walks between Ignacio and the Senior Center he picks up and disposes of the litter along both sides of the highway. All these tasks are performed without thought of payment and apparently without any resentment that others do not help. For these reasons we are pleased to honor Frank Padilla as our Senior Citizen of the month. He is a responsible and dignified resident and has set an admirable example for the rest of us to be a friend and neighbor to our whole community. September, 1979 - Liva Pacheco & Shelby Smith 126 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Frank Padilla Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1979-09 Subject The topic of the resource Padilla, Frank; Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Frank Padilla based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the September, 1979 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Padilla, Frank Extent The size or duration of the resource. 1 page Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby; Pacheco, Liva