Oral History Commons^™

Interview No. 1705, Maria G. Gomez

Combined Interviews

Maria Guadalupe Gomez describes her upbringing living El Paso and also her constant visits to her parents’ hometown of Ojo Frío, Chihuahua. Ms. Gomez was born in El Paso on 1969; She remembers her visits to Ojo Frío, which she describes as a very small ranching town in the desert with no more than a few hundred people. Her parents both worked as manufacturing workers but her father later worked for a grocery store and her mother worked for a restaurant. Ms. Gomez lived alongside her five other siblings. She completed her freshman year of high school and later attained …