Author: Linda Huesca Tully

I was just turning four years old in 1959, when our family moved to a two-flat brown brick home owned by my maternal grandparents at 7123 South Luella Avenue in Chicago.   We moved into this home on Chicago’s South Side in 1959. This photo shows it as it looked a few years ago. My … Continue reading "Sentimental Sunday: Life on South Luella Avenue"

Joan Joyce (Schiavon) Huesca  (1928 – 1987)   Joan Joyce (Schiavon) Huesca, at the country  home of my Uncle Enrique and Aunt Mercedes “Meche” Huesca, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, August 1987. My mother went to the corner store one day while in Mexico City to buy some hair gel.  After hunting unsuccessfully for it, she asked the … Continue reading "Shopping Saturday: Adventures in Spanish"

Gilbert Cayetano Huesca (1915 – 2009) Joan Joyce (Schiavon) Huesca (1928 – 1987) About a month after my parents were married, my mother, Joan Huesca, went to the doctor and learned to her great delight that she was expecting their first child.    (In fact, my mother preferred the term “expecting” a baby to being “pregnant,” a … Continue reading "Treasure Chest Thursday: Baby Announcement"

Gilbert Cayetano Huesca (1915 – 2009) Joan Joyce (Schiavon) Huesca (1928 – 1987)   Of all the congratulations that my parents, Gilbert and Joan Huesca received on the occasion of their marriage, none was quite so welcome as this one, from my maternal grandparents, Ralph and Alice (McGinnis) Schiavon.   Undoubtedly, they were taken aback by the surprise … Continue reading "Wedding Wednesday: A Message from Mother and Dad"

Gilbert Cayetano Huesca  (1915 – 2009) Joan Joyce (Schiavon) Huesca (1928 – 1987) My mother pasted this card into her scrapbook.  For the first time, she was addressed as “Mrs. Huesca” there.  “I was so proud!” she wrote. Once my parents were declared husband and wife by Justice of the Peace Miles E. Cunat on August 19, 1954, … Continue reading "Treasure Chest Thursday: We Were Married Today"