https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/9ceb87890bfca639bf41f7cb21bbc6bd.pdf e4d9929ba37084f4f7d05d4da52d4917 PDF Text Text Adela Quintana (Abridged) I'm Adela Quintana. My maiden name was Mascarenas: Adela Mascarenas. I was born in 1923: August the 261\ 1923. I was born on just over the other side of the ni>ver from Rosa until I was three years old and then we moved to Silverton. My parents: Serestino Mascarenas and [?] Quintana. Three years we stayed in Silverton and then my parents moved back to Rosa and bought a ranch where the Navajo Dam is. We stayed on that ranch until I got married in 1940. All those I spent on my dad's ranch. Back and forth we went to school in Rosa from the ranch. After I got married, I married[?] Quintana, I stayed in Rosa until they built the Navajo Dam. I had all my family in Rosa except one. I have a great big family, a family of 10: five boys and five girls. My husband went into the service when I had my first little baby, Nadi Quintana Silva (she's Silva now). He stayed in the service for about three years. He never did get to know his first daughter until returning from the service. We moved to Ignacio and we stayed in Ignacio from 1960 until now. All my family is scattered all over. I'm happy and blessed with my family and that I don't have any trouble with my family at all. My husband, he was sick all this time after he came from the service. He stayed in hospitals on and on, and on, for years and years. I had to raise my family and find work for myself. All my family finished high school, finished college. I have a girl who's a doctor. All my kids have pretty good jobs. My oldest daughter is working in Washington, D.C. for the government. One of my sons is an architect in Castle Rock [, CO], and one of my sons is the Town Manager here in Ignacio. I have a daughter that is married to a doctor and she lives in Farmington. Another daughter is married to a schoolteacher and she lives in Arizona. My oldest daughter lives in Denver. One son I have in Philadelphia. He was in the service a long time and got out. A daughter works as a secretary over in Bayfield. They all have pretty nice jobs. I moved from my ranch. I had five acres that I bought in 1960. But, I couldn't handle the ranch and the five acres by myself So, I moved to town. I'm living here now. I'm closer to everyone, to stores and to church. I can still do my driving to go to church. My family will check on me once in a while, see ifl need anything. I've been real blessed with my whole family. My father used to work in the gold mines in Silverton. Finally he moved and continued being a rancher. We raised cattle, sheep, pigs, all kinds of animals. The first time l started school was in Rosa. Matter of fact, I started in Allison for one month. I was old already when I started: I was eleven. But, I passed several grades in one year, and my teachers kept giving me classes so that I could catch up. I graduated from the eighth grade when I was 18. I graduated from the eighth grade when I was supposed to be graduating from high school. Then I just started working after I finished the eighth grade. I worked painting houses, cleaning houses, on the ranch in Rosa and Arboles ... around those places. I have three brothers and one sister. �Page 2 of3 I didn't get any compensation from my husband, because he was mentally ill. The first time he came, he burned all of my papers. I had a hard time to get my papers back. I had six of my children before I got any compensation from the government. The four last ones are seven years apart and I started getting compensation. With that I paid for their school (for the four youngest ones). For the other ones, I supported them by working everywhere I could work. No welfare, just working. Restaurants, stores in Arboles and Rosa, painting stores in and out ... real hard jobs that I used to do. When we moved to Ignacio it was a little better, because there was more work and I could make a little more money. Three or four years after we moved here they sent me to Oklahoma so that I could get a degree to teach Head Start. I got my degree and came back, and my oldest kids took care of the youngest ones. I worked for three years at the Head Start. I was the first one to start working at the Head Start ere in Ignacio. After three years I started getting compensation for my last kids. When I got compensation, they said I couldn't work anymore with the Head Start. I worked in the restaurant and for seven years at Peaceful Spirit (I was a cook). But, I did pretty good and I'm very proud of my family. I never did have any problems with my kids ... never, with the law or anything. So, I'm grateful for that. My husband died in 1990. He stayed in the veterans' hospital. I was all by myself .. my kids were all out and working. But, I've always done all of my work, all kinds of work. I wire my house, plumb my house. I did everything and saved a lot of money doing all the work myself Sometimes I have a little trouble with the electricity here. But, I have a son who's a pretty good worker with electricity. (He works for the casino in maintenance.) So, I take advantage of him now that I'm getting older and I can't do it. But, I'm still doing all right. I have 26 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. I see them often. For my [80th] birthday they gave me a big, big surprise, and I wasn't expecting nobody. I thought I was going on vacation somewhere. They turned around and brought me back home. Someone had gotten sick, and when they brought me back, this house was packed. 58 were in this house when I walked in. I'm telling you it was a shake for me! I should have known better what was going to happen: that they were going to surprise me for my birthday. I am 80 years old now. When we were living on the ranch we didn't have church except once a month or once every three months. But, in Rosa we had a celebration on the Thirtieth of August for Santa Rosa. We used to make a big dinner, we had a real nice Mass, we'd walk around the church and carried the saint. At night we had luminarias on the church. We had a rosary the day before Santa Rosa's. It was very neat to do that. We didn't always have the celebration on Santa Rosa's day, because we didn't have a priest. But, we had it whenever a priest came in September of October. For Christmas we used to have our Midnight Mass (not in Rosa but here in Ignacio). We had the Posadas. The Posadas is a group of people and we go door to door and sing songs. Posadas is like when Joseph and Mary went door to door asking for a place for Jesus to be born, then finally he was born in a barn. We used to have a lady who did it [Posada] in Spanish, read it in Spanish. We had Posadas until she couldn't do it anymore. We have San Ignacio Day here in Ignacio with a parade and all. WE used to go around the church walking with the saint, but lately we haven't been doing those things ... short of help, short of people who can do it. There used to be really nice celebrations, really nice dinners. We'd bring bands to play for San Ignacio and �Page 3 of3 dancing in the night. We used to have two days of parades: Saturday and Sunday. But, now we just have one day, because we don't have enough help. We celebrate San Ignacio at the end of July. I do all the laundry for the Church. Sundays we have Mass I go to set up everything for the priest to have Mass. At 9:30 I open the church for the people to go in. The month of December is my month for cleaning the whole church with a group of four ladies. For many, many years I've done these things. I used to do it in Rosa, in Arboles, in Aztec; when we moved there for a little while. My husband got sick over there [in the service]; he lost his mind. He was 100% mentally disabled. He used to go for four months, one month, or nine months in the hospital. I would go and get him, but take him back because he was pretty bad, especially as he got older. He had Alzheimer's really bad. I took him to the hospital, because I thought he was a danger to the family and to myself Finally, at the end I just couldn't handle him. So, I took him to Albuquerque. That's where he died. I knew my grandparents. Pedro Quintana and Juanita Quintana were my mother's parents from Rosa, NM. My grandma had a big family, too. On my father's side were Emanuel Mascarenas and Maria de Jesus Mascarenas. They had a big family, too. They were just across on the other side of the river. The Mascarenas family came form Clayton [, NM], and they bought a ranch right here on the other side of the river. My mother was a Quintana and I married a Quintana. So, I got my mother's name, but they weren't related. I have a lot of cousins. I can't even count them. *** This house belonged to my son-in-law and my oldest daughter, and I don't own nothing. All I have is just my little Social Security. I don't want to own nothing more. I want nothing more; I divided my money to all my kids. Just my car, so I can drive while I am able to. That way, when I die, I won't have nothing. I won't have to worry about this or that, because it's all settled. That's the way I've worked my life. I have a lot of stories, a lot of long stories. But, it's too much. I was a sheepherder ... I was everything. But, long, long stories. *** Interviewed by Michael Miller (VISTA) on January 28th , 2004. � 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/. 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