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BY DOLORES FOX CIARDELLI
Maria Lima celebrated her 96th birthday recently with five generations of her family; the youngest was her great-great-granddaughter Keira Uribe, who was born just 2 months ago. “Keira seemed very interested in her great-greatgrandmother, and my mother held her and was googooing at her,” said Liz Davidson, the second youngest of Maria’s 10 children. Maria, her husband John and their children immigrated to the United States in 1960 from the island of Faial in the Azores. They settled in Pleasanton where John had a job waiting as a carpenter at the Pleasanton Cabinet Shop, owned by Swiss friends Conrad Rickenbach and Frank Auf der Maur “I was 9,” Davidson recalled. “The youngest was 6.” The oldest, Joe Lima, was 22 and is now 75. It was his son David Lima who was the first grandson, and David’s daughter Kristine Uribe who was the first greatgranddaughter. Her daughter Keira is the first greatgreat-granddaughter, for a total of five generations. The Lima family first lived in a home on Angela Street, Davidson said, then moved to Railroad, then See GENERATIONS on Page 8
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Maria Lima with five generations of her family: son Joe Lima, grandson David Lima, great-granddaughter Kristine Uribe and great-great-granddaughter Keira Uribe, 2 months.