Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Cordova Page 37 I say no cooperation, no unity, no ... at the time the discrimina­tion, and when I married Mr. Cordova, oh, I lost friends that I had for years and years and years. They just said, 'If you are going to marry that Mexican, why, we are through with you.' And even my mother, but my father knew him better than my mother did because my father had occasion to be with him oftener than my mother. When I told them we were going to get married Mother wasn't too happy about it, but Father said, 'He is a good man.' Later on, before Mother passed away, she says, 'Well, I am just so happy to say that Alfred,' she used to call him Alfred, 'Alfred is the best son-in-law that I have got. I can come into his home, he makes me acquainted, and the first thing that he says is, alright, now, Nell, you get busy and fix them something to eat . ' He has always made them welcome. Then my father lived with us two years, four years after Mother died. He came and lived with us. My husband had just as deep respect for my father or even more so than he did for his own father for some reason. Oh, he did. He got along so good. My father would get up, he lived over in this little apartment. That is where he slept, but he came and took all of his meals here. So I would send Carl over and I would say, 'Carl, go get Grandpa. Come to breakfast.' My husband would always make my children stand up behind their chairs and wait for Grandpa to come. This is what