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Rafelita’s Story
When Rafelita Gonzales Marques was born on April 15, 1905, in New Mexico, her father, Juan, was 40, and her mother, Francesca, was 31. She had ten children with Juan A Marquez between 1923 and 1941. She died on March 16, 1968, in Littlefield, Texas, at the age of 62, and was buried there.






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