Tuzon kids in front of fallow field

Modesto Orlando and Rita Tuzon beside a fallow field. Rita is wearing hand-sewn clothes by their mother, Linda Ardell Tuzon. Rita and Modesto Orlando remember that Ardell made Barbie doll clothes for community children and would gift designs to other women.

Linda Ardell Tuzon

July 1962

Modesto Orlando Tuzon and Rita Tuzon

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