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Ameli Salinas

1924-2003
Born: Pharr, Hidalgo, Texas, USA
Died: Antioch, Contra Costa, California, USA

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  • Story: Ameli Cuellar Salinas-Wenneker

    My Mom was the greatest. She worked hard, very hard, all through her life until kidney failure and heart disease killed her in August, 2003. She married and divorced the same man, Verle Eldon Harding Wenneker, three (3) times, trying hard but very unsuccessfully, to give us a stay-at-home father. He was a roaming philanderer. She did raise five (5) children on her own.  Me, Verle Eldon "Butch" Wenneker, Wendell Warren Wenneker, M.D., Physician and Surgeon. Dwight Douglas Wenneker, died September, 2003, Susan Jean Verlette Wenneker and Maria Linda Luz Wenneker. Damn, we did grow up poor. She left Pharr, Texas, with us five children, on a Mexican migrant labor contract into the San Joaquin Valley of California. She tried hard hard to fill her children's every wish. For example, I wanted a shotgun at age 11. So, she bought me one for for my 12th Christmas present. And I remember her joyous pride when Wendell graduated from Medical School and once again when Wendell finished his seven (7) year residency in Surgery from San Francisco General Hospital. And even though I was a 10th grade "drop out" she, again, was so proud of me when I graduated in 1975 with a BS in Wildlife Biology from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.. While I was in the Us Marine Corps, mainly in Tanks in Vietnam for 27 month's, up to my rank of Sergeant, she would write me very often and send me "care packages, full of "Blue Cow cheese bit's, flour tortillas and, infrequently, bottles of Johnny Walker Red whisky. And, Oh My God, could she cook and it was alway's Mexican meal's for all of us, any hour of the day or night. She died one early morning in her bed at home. She had called her care-giver for a glass of warm milk, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Ten minutes later, her care-giver returned with her warm milk and she had passed away. She was cremated as was her son Dwight Douglas. I will be cremated too. Then our three urn's will be buried in the old family cemetary plot in Pharr, Hidalgo, Texas. I miss her dearly. She has been dead almost four years, and yet still, whenever the telephone rings, I automatically still think "That may be Mom." That was how often she would telephone me. God blessed you Mom and you blessed all of us.

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