https://wiith-archive.ucsc.edu/files/original/c83292028a335cad2a35a44a19218789.pdf e492b4e81810d0bf5c487f1d07556cfd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nerona-Sanchez Family Collection Description An account of the resource Margaret Sanchez was born in San Antonio, Texas, and her date of birth is not known. Margaret had two children: Gloria Dominguez (b. unknown) and Marialis Dominguez (b. unknown, but eventually, she married Isidro Ramon Gonzalez—a man born in Monterrey, Mexico, and raised in Texas. Isidro and Margaret had two children together, Dora Gonzalez (b. unknown) and Raymond “Ray” Gonzalez (b. 1943). Their daughter Dora passed away from diabetes around 1946. Isidro and Margaret divorced in 1947. Throughout her life, Margaret migrated around the United States working in the canneries and agricultural fields. She and her children moved from Chicago to Salinas in 1949. In 1950, Margaret met Benito Acosta Nerona while they were both working in the Pajaro Valley cannery industry. Benito was born in the municipality of Luna, in the province of La Union, in the Philippines, during the early 1900s (Benito’s exact date of birth is unknown). He migrated from the Philippines to Hawai‘i, where he worked in the hospitality industry, and then to San Francisco. Later, during the 1940s, he worked as a crew member on the S.S. Cardinal O’Connor, an Army Transportation Corps ship. In the late 1940s, Benito began to work in Pajaro and Salinas Valley agriculture. In 1951, Benito and Margaret married in Watsonville. Benito adopted Margaret’s son, Ray Gonzalez. Together, Benito and Margaret had a daughter named Leilani Nerona (b. 1952). Benito and Margaret were involved in field labor union organizing and hosted union meetings at their family home in the Pajaro Valley. Margaret, Benito, and their children were integrated into the Pajaro Valley Filipino American community. They were close friends with the Castillos and other Filipino families in Watsonville. Although he is not Filipino, Margaret’s son, Ray, was especially active within the Filipino American community and was a member of the Filipino Youth Club at Watsonville High School during the late 1950s. Benito passed away in 1980. The Nerona-Sanchez Family Collection was donated to Watsonville is in the Heart in 2023. It contains one oral history interview with Raymond Gonzalez. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Raymond Gonzalez Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Una Lynch Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Raymond Gonzalez Location The location of the interview Zoom Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2:09:23 URL <span style="font-weight: 400;">Link to audio recording on escholarship: </span><a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mt5c065#supplemental" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raymond Gonzalez interviewed by Una Lynch </a> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data .m4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Raymond Gonzalez interviewed by Una Lynch Description An account of the resource In this interview, originally recorded over Zoom, Raymond “Ray” Gonzalez speaks with Watsonville is in the Heart team member Una Lynch. Ray talks about his mother, Margaret Sanchez, a Latina woman who moved around the country from Texas searching for work. He explains how she eventually settled in Salinas, working in agriculture and as a cook in the labor camps. Ray goes on to talk about how his mother met his stepfather, Benito Acosta Nerona, while working in the canneries. Benito, who Ray describes as “the best part of [his] life”, immigrated to Watsonville from the Philippines to work as an agricultural laborer. Ray speaks about the hardships his stepfather endured while working in the fields, and he describes the union meetings his parents would host at their family home. Though Ray is not ethnically Filipino, he shares his feelings of respect and pride for the Filipino community in Watsonville that his stepfather passed down to him. Ray also reminisces about being involved in the Filipino Youth Club and the tight knit Filipino and Latino communities while growing up in Watsonville. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Raymond Gonzalez Una Lynch Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 6, 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) is a community-driven public history initiative to preserve and uplift stories of Filipino migration and labor in the city of Watsonville and greater Pajaro Valley. All oral history interviews are donated to WIITH by the narrators. Copyright is held by WIITH. Oral history interview recordings and transcripts are available for unrestricted use and reproduction by educators and researchers. Please note that the recordings on this website are provided via escholarship. For access to oral history audio files, please contact the project director at wiith@ucsc.edu. If you are an oral history narrator and would like to remove your interview from the archive website, please contact the project director. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Alaska Canneries Hawai'i Religion Salinas Stoop Labor Texas Watsonville