Guest Columnist Mary Hultgren:
In October Curlie, Katie, John, Carolyn and I all had the great fortune
to enjoy a wonderful evening up at the Andrades.
Veronica is doing great. She turned 80 last year and was feeling spry
enough to make deviled eggs and her famous Portuguese beans for dinner.
Tony is married to a great gal named
Diana who grew up in the San Jose
area and attended Silver Creek High School. They have just announced
that they are expecting their first child.
Tony has become an excellent cook and we were treated to a regional
specialty from Gus's home island of Madeira. We helped skewer the meat
between fresh bay leaves as seen in one of the photos.
Gus passed away
two years ago, but according to Veronica it was a true blessing. Gus had
spent some time in a home that he kept trying to run away from. Tony would
walk him around the Higuera property and Gus was convinced they were just
renters. A beautiful memorial basket is displayed in their dining room.
They have built an $8 million 7,000 sq. foot house in
our old orchard. The
Bauer house looks great. It sold to the most recent couple about two years
ago for $600,000. The yard is beautifully landscaped, the driveway is newly
paved, the retaining wall looks great and they have a multi-tiered deck now
in the back. According to Dan Geroci they have however had major problems
with our old septic system!
Dan and Katie Geroci are doing well at 87 and 84 years of age. Pat Johnson
recently turned 70. Lynn Johnson and her husband now live with Pat along with
their toddler Twins. Shirley Rushane has passed away, but Denise and her
husband are now living with Al. Denise still works at Peter‘s Bakery. The
Delponte orchards only produced 300 boxes of apricots this year so they no
longer run the drying operation in the back. Dennis is a very successful
divorce attorney in downtown San Jose. Kathy and Charlene are both doing well.
Charlene and her husband have three children.
The Mt. Pleasant and Hiquera Road areas have really been built out. According
to Tony and Dan Geroci, the traffic and crime have really gotten bad. They even
had a drug related murder at the bus stop where a guy was dumped out of a car.
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