Manuel Lopez Jimenez, son of Felix Jimenez (1870-1972) and Desideria L. Lopez (1887-1974), was born in 1915 in Aguas Caliente, Mexico. He married Delfina Rebecca Gallegos, daughter of Delfino Bernardo Gallegos (1902-1975) and Esquipula Elvira Marquez (1900-1940), in 1944 in Yakima, Washington. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Mexico, New Mexico, Colorodo, Wyoming and Washington.

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