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DEATH: Death certificate on file at the San Diego County Recorder, County Administration Building, 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 260, San Diego, CA 92101, (619) 237-0502; informant - Bernice M. Hansen, 2941 Morningside Street, San Diego, CA 92139
BURIAL: Holy Cross Cemetery, 4470 Hilltop Drive , San Diego, CA 92102, (619) 264-3127
CENSUS: 1900 Old Town, Ward 1, San Diego, San Diego County, California, E.D. #189, sheet 12A, page 94A
1920 - 2832 Chestnut Street, Precinct 9, San Diego, San Diego Township, San Diego County, California, E.D. #254, sheet 1A, page 234A
1930 - 2832 Chestnut Street, San Diego, San Diego Township, San Diego County, California, E.D. #37-90, sheet 1A, page 66A
OBITUARY: The San Diego Union, San Diego, California, November 8, 1986, page B-5:5,6
Joseph Serrano, 94, dies; 3rd-generation native of Old Town ________________________________________________________________________________
Joseph Anthony Serrano, 94, a third-generation native of Old Town, whose ancestors came from Spain with Father Junipero Serra, died Wednesday in the Kaiser Hospital in El Cajon.
Mr. Serrano was a charter member of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Old Town, where the rosary will be recited and Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Monday. Berge-Roberts Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Burial will be in the Holy Cross Cemetery.
A great-grandfather, Jose Leandro Serrano, fought under Mexican Gen. Andres Pico against the Americans in the Battle of San Pasqual in 1846, two years before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo made California part of the United States. Rancho Pauma, near Palomar Mountain, was a Serrano holding.
His grandfather, Luis Antonio Serrano, was born in Old Town, and his father, Luis Serrano, was the last child of European ancestry born in Old Town under the Mexican flag. Luis Serrano married Sarafina Stewart, daughter of Jack Stewart, a Scottish lumber merchant. Luis Serrano also was the last of several generations of bullfighters in the Serrano family. He was a rejoneador, fighting from horseback, and regularly made the trip to San Francisco to appear there. There also were bullfights in Old Town in early days, family members said. As a child, Mr. Joseph Serrano attended the Old Town Mason Street School. As a young man, he was San Diego's best baseball pitcher. A scout from an East Coast team signed him to go with a professional team. "He had his clothes all packed," his daughter, Bernice Hansen, said. "But his mother, Sarafina, cried and cried, and finally his father told him he could not go. So that was the end of his baseball career."
He worked in the house moving business when the houses were being moved by teams of horses, his daughter said.
He also worked for the city of San Diego as a maintenance engineer in the street department for 20 years, retiring in 1958.
Mr. Serrano is survived by his daughter, Bernice M. Hansen of Paradise Hills; two sons, Norman and Johny of San Diego; 14 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.
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The San Diego Union, San Diego, California, November 8, 1986, page C-10 and The San Diego Tribune, San Diego, California, November 8, 1986, page C-10
The Joseph A. Serrano family's roots go deep in Old Town ________________________________________________________________________________
A rosary will be recited and a Mass will be said at 9 a.m. Monday in Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church of Old Town for Joseph A. Serrano, 94, of Old Town. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Berge-Roberts Mortuary is in charge. He died Wednesday in a hospital.
Mr. Serrano was born in Old Town and was a lifelong county resident. He had been a city maintenance engineer for 20 years, attended Mason Street Grammar School in Old Town and was a member of one of Old Town's founding families.
Mr. Serrano's ancestors came here from Spain with Father Junipero Serra, and the family has lived in the San Diego area since the 1700s. Mr. Serrano was a charter member of the Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Bernice Hansen, and two sons, Norman and Johny, all of San Diego; 14 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.
Note: MARRIAGE: Marriage record on file at the San Diego County Recorder, County Administration Bu
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