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Obituary:
San Diego Union-Tribune, The (CA) - February 16, 2008
Deceased Name: HORR, LUIS ALVAREZ
April 21, 1941 to February 1, 2008 Luis Alvarez, 66, of San Diego, died February 1st. Luis Alvarez was born in Calexico, California. He was a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He also lived in Mexicali, Mexico, where he worked in the family's agricultural business as well as for Kyocera in San Diego, California. He raced in the Baja 500 and 1000 and was an active member of his local dog-park community. Luis lived for his family, dogs, and wild Baja adventures. Survivors include his wife Judy Alvarez of San Diego; his daughter, Adrienne Alvarez Kamena of San Diego; his son Luis Andres Alvarez of Cardiff; his grandson Cruz David Alvarez Kamena of San Diego; and his sister Anita Alvarez Williams. Memorial: 1:00 p.m. Sunday, February 17th, Nate's Point Dog Park, Balboa Park. Scattering of Ashes: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Please sign the guest book at obituaries.uniontrib.com.

Luis married Living. [Group Sheet]

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Luis married Ila Horr in 1929 in Bankhead Springs, San Diego Co, California, USA. Ila (daughter of Albert Horr and Anna Frank) was born on 20 May 1910 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co, California, USA; died on 15 Jun 2003 in Country Hill, , California, USA; was buried in El Camino, Tehama Co, California, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Census: 1920
• Education: San Diego State

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Alvarez, Ila Mary Horr

Transcribed as Hora
Living with parents in 1920.
1920 Census: Jacumba, San Diego Co, California
Ila M. Horr, dau, age 9, bp CA

Obituary published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on 6/29/2003.


[[ALVAREZ, ILA MARY HORR 1910 to 2003 A descendent of Hezekiah Horr, who sailed from Devon, Ireland on the "Recovery" and landed at the port of Weymouth Massachusetts in 1634, Ila Mary Horr ' s grandfather, Riley Horr, started the first post office in California on the Tuollumne River. Her parents met and married at Clearlake in northern California. Ila was born in Santa Rosa in 1910, where the family lived just around the corner from famed horticulturist Luther Burbank. Ila loved plants all her life. At age two, she won the "Prettiest Baby in Santa Rosa" contest. Ila and her family moved to Dixieland in the Imperial Valley where her father, Bert Horr, homesteaded farmland. Ila ' s mother, Anna Barbara Frank Horr, found the desert heat intolerable, so in 1916 the family leased Jacumba from Titus Spreckles. Bert ' s father, Riley Horr then homesteaded Bankhead Springs, named for Senator Bankhead, promoter of the new transcontinental highway. At Bankhead, Bert built a hotel and a new home for his family. As a youngster, Ila explored surrounding mountains and collected Kumeyaay Indian artifacts near her home. She also took archaeologist Malcolm Rogers to meet Kumeyaay potter Rosa Lopez (Owas Hilmawa) and showed archaeologist Julian Hayden the rock art near Bankhead. Ila ' s extensive Kumeyaay collection is on display at the Heritage of the Americas Museum near Cuyamaca College. Ila attended one-room Clover Flats school (now the Wisteria Candy Cottage) in Manzanita (now Boulevard). Under the oaks outside the school window Ila used to see Kumeyaay women in long skirts gathering and winnowing acorns. Graduating with honors from San Diego ' s "Old Russ High School", Ila turned down an opportunity to model bathing suits and began studying art and business at San Diego State. But the following summer, at a dance in Jacumba, she met a handsome Mexican businessman, Luis Alvarez Garza. They married at Bankhead Springs on a great granite outcrop (since known to the family as the "wedding rock") in 1929 taking up residence in Calexico, where their daughter Anita was born in 1931. They then moved to the residential area of a cotton gin complex in Mexicali. Their son Luis was born in Calexico in 1941. Ila became president of the Calexico Women ' s Club, and, when the family moved north, president of the Brawley Women ' s club. In Brawley, Ila sang for radio station KROP and for the Sacred Heart Church choir. The family moved briefly to Lake Arrowhead and then to a house designed by Ila and built by Jackson and Scott in Pacific Beach. By the time Ila was widowed in 1968, she had amplified her already extensive collection of books on the Californias by purchasing the library of San Diego historian and editor Philip Rush. By then she had organized the first international meeting of the long-lived Asociacion Cultural de las Californias, an annual symposium dedicated to Baja California. First woman member of the San Diego Corral of the Westerners, in 1984 Ila won their prestigious "Old Joe" award, writing for them about mapmaker Jacobo Blanco, explorer Godfrey Sykes and astronomer Chappe D ' Auteroche. She also wrote for the Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly and for the Cabrillo Monument, serving for a time on their board of directors. Having visited much of Mexico, Ila continued traveling by plane, yacht, mule and off-road-vehicle throughout Baja California. She often camped in Baja, sometimes caravanning with other Baja enthusiasts such as Roscoe "Pappy" Hazard and Erle Stanley Gardner, always raising clouds of dust and glory as she tore along in her dune buggy. She drove the length of the peninsula twice before the road was paved. Ila loved her family fiercely, and after that she loved people, and plants. She designed and made pretty clothes and interesting jewelry and gave big parties famous for her tamale pie. In her nineties, Ila told one of her granddaughters "if you don ' t learn something new every day -- even one small thing -- you ' re wasting your time". At 93 Ila responded to a bit of new information "Huh! I learned something new today!" Ila died June 15 at Country Hills, and was buried at El Camino June 18. Ila ' s passing was marked by an affectionate gathering of her family at her graveside, drumming in Jacumba, Masses said in Mexicali and the continued loving prayers of family and friends. Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on 6/29/2003.
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Transcribed as HERR, town mistranscribed, the name is Calpella
1900 Census: Calnella, Mendocino Co, California
Bert Horr, Mar 1868, age 32, m 4 yrs, bp NY, m's bp NY, Farmer
Annie Horr, 1 birth, personal info left blank
Walter Horr, son, personal info left blank
Fred J. Horr, brother, July 1878, age 21, bp WI, bp's bp NY, Day laborer
Svid T. McChinlock, boarder, Day laborer
John H, Williams, boarder, Day laborer

1910 Census: Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co, California
Bert W. Horr, age 42, married 14 yrs, bp NY, Manager- Sawmill
Anna B. Horr, age 38, 3 births 2 living, bp Russ- German
Walter R. Horr, son, age 11, bp CA
Emily G. Horr, dau, age 8, bp CA
Kate Downey, servant, age 20, bp CA

Transcribed as Hora
1920 Census: Jacumba, San Diego Co, California
Bert Horr, age 51, bp NY, p's bp NY, Laborer- state highway
Anna Horr, wife, age 49, RUS, p's bp RUS
Grace E. Horr, dau, age 18, bp CA
Walter R. Horr, son, age 20, bp CA, Truck Driver- state highway
Ila M. Horr, dau, age 9, bp CA

1930 Census: Jacumba, San Diego Co, California
Bert W. Horr, age 62, bp NY, p's bp NY, Manager- farm resort
Anna B. Horr, age 58, bp So RUS, p's bp So RUS

Albert married Anna Frank about 1896 in Clearlake, Lake Co, California, USA. Anna was born on 26 Nov 1871 in Russia; died on 19 Apr 1973 in . [Group Sheet]