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Note: His parents lived in the Monterrey area in the state of Nuevo Leon in Mexico about 1900. Gradually they migrated north as the birthplaces of the sons indicate. Four of the brothers entered the US at Laredo in the late 1920s. Three brothers are found in Kansas on the 1930 Federal Census working as railroad laborers. Ross was working as a restaurant waiter on West Commerce St in San Antonio, Texas in 1930. In the 1930s he moved to Detroit, Michigan, changed his name to Ross, and worked as a cook in a restaurant earning $100/month. He married in 1938 and they lived in a $15/month apartment. After 1940 the family moved to Bassett Street in River Rouge briefly, then in December of 1943 to the government 'projects' at 4551 7th Street in Ecorse, down-river from Detroit. He worked at Great Lakes Steel in River Rouge and later on at Michigan Steel in Ecorse. The family didn't own an automobile and he walked to and from work in River Rouge daily. Later on they were able to build their own home at 4561 2nd Street in Ecorse. After years of laboring in the steel mills and enduring the cold weather of the north, the family moved to San Antonio in June of 1955 to begin a business of their own. They lived in a motel on the south side of San Antonio for a while, then a rental home in Olmos Park, before moving to the rural outskirts north of the city where they operated a drive-in cafe on the same property. It was adjacent to the International Airport at 528 N.E. Military Highway and under the approach to the northeast runway. The highway was just a two lane road then. The business and home have long been demolished for the new 12 lane NE I-410 Loop. Later he bought and operated a small hamburger stand in the Balcones Heights area of the city as well. In the 1950s his mother and a younger brother were living in Rodriguez, a suburb across the river from Anahauc, forty miles on a dirt road southwest of Neuvo Laredo, Texas. They lived in an adobe type home, with dirt floors and no running water, doors, or electricity. In July of 1956 Ross died at the young age of 46 of a heart attack on the way to Santa Rosa Hospital. It was just a short year after moving to San Antonio and enjoying the good life and weather of South Texas, his dream of running his own business, and being closer to his family in Mexico. Lorraine and teenage sons moved to Trimble, Tennessee in October to be near her family in Mason Hall.
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Ruperto - Jesus - Ross Poncho - Teresoa
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