Rosa Bravo Aranda

Rosa Bravo Bravo was born in Pescadores, a small ranch in Guanajuato Mexico on August 23, 1925, to Jose Guadalupe Bravo and Maria Guadalupe Bravo. She was the second oldest of nine in her family. She lovingly helped care for her siblings and worked on the ranch until she married at the age of 19.

She married Francisco Aranda on January 27, 1945, during the free 6:30 morning mass wearing her handmade purple dress. She gave birth to 10 children, 7 girls and 3 boys: Juan, Maria de la Luz, Consuelo, Martha, Francisco Javier, Teresa, Rosa Icela, Jose Luis, Maria Elena and Juana. The family moved to Mexico City after the birth of her second child. There she often worked as a seamstress to help support the family. She endured the pain of tragically loosing two of her boys, Francisco Javier at age one in 1954 and her oldest, Juan at age 21 in 1966. Rosa bravely moved the family of eight to California July 1969 to keep the family together. The family first lived in a strawberry ranch in San Jose and then moved to a bigger more rural strawberry ranch in Morgan Hill where they resided until 1980. During this time she worked alongside her husband and children in many crops throughout the Silicon Valley but particularly strawberries. The family moved to San Jose in 1980 and retired from farm work. Rosa retired at the age of 55 at which time; she became a full-time homemaker to her two youngest daughters. She resided in San Jose until her passing. Upon her passing, she was a devoted mother of 8, grandmother of 24, great-grandmother of 28 and great, great-grandmother of one. Rosa had a big heart and was gentle and sweet yet strong, determined and very tough. She will be dearly missed.