Yolo-Los Angeles County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....VASQUEZ , Casilda Merino  April 5 2004
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"The Davis Enterprise," Monday, April 26, 2004
Casilda M. Vasquez

Casilda Merino Vasquez, a 30-year resident of Davis, died April 5, 2004, in
Claremont. She was 76 years old.

She was born on June 18, 1927, and grew up in San Jose de Bachiniva, Chihuahua,
Mexico. She came to the United States in 1948 and lived in Davis, where she
attended and graduated from UC Davis with a bachelor's degree with multiple
teaching credentials.

She treasured her years of teaching, her family said. She worked with migrant
education students in Esparto, as well as with underprivileged children in the
Mission District of San Francisco. In the early 1980s, she moved to Claremont
and continued teaching bilingual education for underprivileged children in the
Pomona Unified School District.

In addition to her love of teaching, she also loved music, fine arts, traveling
and cooking. She promoted lively debate and the pursuit of higher education. She
encouraged her children and grandchildren to be socially active and
community-oriented, her family remembers. She took great pride and joy in the
educational accomplishments of her family.

She is survived by four daughters, Lydia de los Rios and her husband Miguel of
Claremont, Sylvia Vasquez and her husband Andrew Gould of Columbus, Ohio;
Ophelia Vasquez of Helendale and Myrna Vasquez of San Diego; and son, Albert
Vasquez and his wife Christy Brown of Davis.

She is also survived by her sisters, Lilia Loya and Myrna Vilardel, and her
brothers, Miguel Merino and Saul Merino, all of Chihuahua, Mexico; and her
grandchildren, Jose and Cathy de los Rios, Enrico Echevarria, and Jeremy and
Kyle Brown.

Services were held April 17 at the Claremont United Church of Christ in
Claremont, followed by interment at the Forest Lawn Mortuary in Covina Hills.


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Submitted with the permission of the "The Davis Enterprise," 315 G Street,
Davis, CA 95616.

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