Maria Elema Almaguer Mauricio Family

Maria Elena Almaguer was the 4th child in the family. She was alway an out going girl. Some of the best family stories have to do with her when she was a little kid. She is know to the family as "Mane".

At the age of 18 her older brother, Carlos, put her and her cousin, Teresa, on a bus to Omaha, Nebraska. He had talked then into signing up with the Job Corps. After finishing there Mane started to work at the County Hospital in Eagle Pass. In the mid 70's she married Juan Mauricio. They have two kids Daniel and Erika.

Daniel attended TSTC in Waco and majored in Tejano Dancing. Erika went to SWTJC in Uvalde and is now living in San Marcos.

	Maria Elena's school picture. Maria Elena as a teenager growing up in Eagle Pass.
	Mane is 2nd from left and Teresa Almaguer is 4th from left. Mane and Teresa in their Job Corps uniforms.
	Mane and Terese after returning to Eagle Pass from Omaha. Mane in here late teens. I remember Mane had a piñata party for me when I was 12 years old. She was always doing stuff like that. She made the Quinceañera party for Dora.
	Mane as bride and with her groom. They were married in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico.
	Juan and Mane with buelito Chendo (Rosendo Cardenas). Traditional Wedding dance. They married in the summer and the temperatures were in the high 90's at night. The dance lasted until 2:00 am, but the Torno Boda lasted until 7:00 am.
		Juan and Mane with their Maids of Honor. Lt. to Rt.- Unknown, Rosa Mauricio, Dora Almaguer, Unknown, Unknow, Juan, Mane, Dora Santillan, Mary Lou, Unknown, Mary Jane Vasquez, and Cruz Sosa. _____________________
The wedding dance had about 800 people there, half of those were relatives, it was great. This was the first time I danced. We stayed up until everyone went home. The Menudo breakfast was served at my uncle's house in Piedras Negras. They had these huge pots full of menudo cooking outside over open fires. There were about 200 people there and this were just some of the die hard family members. We had family come from California, Colorado, and from other parts of Mexico. Mane and Juan moved into the house that my brother Jose owned in Piedras Negras. It was right there in the same "vivienda" where all my cousins lived. We use to go hang out with Juan during the week. He always had some great stories to tell. He had been an MP in the Mexican Army and had a bullet wound on his foot from training with live ammo. All those rumors that we drank there are not true.....not all of them. What is true is that we use to go see every Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson movie that came out. Juan loved the shoot'em up movies. After the movie we would go by the Zocalo and eat tacos.