Celebrating a birthday

Arizona Daily Star, 7 Aug 1934.

This clipping describes a birthday party at the home Ernest & Annie Freilinger (formerly Mariana Campuzano) for their oldest daughter, Angela (Angelita in this clipping). The attendee list includes a few familiar names. "Mrs. Grijalva and daughter" are Maria Jesus Campuzano Grijalva and her daughter Maria Lourdes. Maria Jesus was the oldest daughter of my 2nd-great-grandfather Vicente Campuzano, so therefore a cousin to Annie Campuzano Freilinger.

"Mrs. Sam Polita and daughter" are Concha Campuzano Polito and her daughter Betty. I wrote about Concha back in April 2018.

Some of the other last names I recognize but I don't know if they are children of distant cousins to the family. We certainly have Flores, Bernal, Gutierrez and Elias in the family tree.

Another Freilinger birthday appeared in the Tucson newspaper - one for Ernest & Annie's youngest daughter Gloria in 1947.

Arizona Daily Star, 21 Sep 1947

Annie had passed away in 1945. The article states that in 1947, Mrs. A. Chacon was foster-mother of Gloria. Mrs. A. Chacon was Angela Freilinger, Gloria's birth mother and oldest daughter of Ernest and Annie. She was 17 years older than Gloria. Angela married Joseph Chacon in 1936 (less than 2 years after the first news clipping above), and by 1947 she was raising four children of her own.

Updated 17 Aug 2020.