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Aunt Sheila’s Meal

Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
8:53 am – Ryan & Austin helping to place hundreds and hundreds of donuts on trays

In mom’s memory, we raised over $2,015 to sponsor two things at mom’s favorite charity, the Los Angeles Mission: we "adopted a meal", and we also sponsored a "seat of compassion" in mom’s name.

The seat of compassion is a seat in the LA Mission’s Holsinger Chapel named in memory of mom. The meal we adopted was lunch today. In addition to raising the money to fund the meal, we also had the opportunity to come down and help prepare and serve Aunt Sheila’s Meal.

10 of us: Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny, Ruven, and I came down to the Mission today and prepared and served Aunt Sheila’s Lunch.

Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
9:10 am – Lisa chopping bell peppers
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
9:50 am – Fritzie, Kirra, Danny & Jimmy washing their hands
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
9:57 am – Lisa still (happily) chopping bell peppers
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
9:58 am – Ruven opening an endless line of cans of corn
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
10:07 am – Danny and the corn
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
10:08 am – Kirra straining the corn
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
10:27 am – Danny, Austin, Gwendy & Ryan making sandwiches
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
10:28 am – Fritzie, Kirra & Lisa chopping bell peppers
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
10:46 am – Break time! We don’t just prepare the food – we get to eat it too!
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
11:10 am – Kirra cracking eggs. Hundreds and hundreds of eggs
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
11:11 am – Jimmy chopping mushrooms
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
11:32 am – Austin & Ryan cracking eggs. Hundreds and hundreds of eggs
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
11:40 am – Fritzie & Ruven
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
11:46 am – Fritzie & Kirra
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
12:11 pm – Danny gives Ryan a “back massage”
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
12:12 pm – Ruven
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
12:21 pm – Fritzie, Kirra, Gwendy & The Boss
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
12:22 pm – Lisa finally gets to put her waitressing skills to use
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
12:23 pm – Kirra & Gwendy serve, and Ruven & Ryan deliver
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
12:33 pm – Ryan & Lisa
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
12:38 pm – Kirra & Ruven serving lunch
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
12:39 pm – Jimmy putting out more meat
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
12:43 pm – Austin & Kirra serving fried chicken
Our team (Gwendy, Lisa, Ryan, Austin, Fritzie, Jimmy, Kirra, Danny & Ruven) preparing and serving "Aunt Sheila's Meal" at the Los Angeles Mission on Saturday 6 July 2019.
12:46 pmAunt Sheila’s Meal at the LA Mission – Lunch, Saturday, 6 July 2019.

Oops

visitors around a hospital bed

Today at mass at St. Thomas Aquinas, there was a map on the side altar for us to put a pin in where we were born. After putting my pin in Lamar, Colorado, I walked off the altar, didn’t see the step down, fell, and fractured my right hip and shoulder. You can read updates on my rehab at sheila.zucman.com/oops

Tech Support

photo of Cecilia Sheila Perez Zucman

I wish I wasn’t so challenged by technical stuff, but at this stage of my life it is really difficult (for me anyway) to pick up on it. I grew up in a world that did not move as fast as it moves now, things did not change every time you turned around, and we did not have all the gadgets that exist nowadays. In fact we had very little of the ordinary everyday things needed just to get by.
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Interpreters’ Banquet 2013

AIJIC-2013-09

Tonight was the 2013 Association of Independent Judicial Interpreters of California (AIJIC) banquet. There was a lovely dinner (great food, terrible service), dancing, and I was AIJIC’s 2013 Honoree! 🙂

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Chrysanthemum Show @ Descanso Gardens

Photo of me, Sheila Zucman, at the 81st annual Chrysanthemum Show at Descanso Gardens.
Glenn and I went to the 81st annual Chrysanthemum Show at Descanso Gardens today. I don’t know how I missed the first 80 shows, but 6 months ago I joined a garden group and I was lucky to hear about this one. It was overwhelming! I had no idea of the diversity of chrysanthemums! The sizes, shapes, colors were just unbelievable!
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Magdalena Perez Tovar 1927-2013

A group of people pose for a family portrait in a back yard.

Cousins party in 2011. Nena and I in the center.

My cousin Nena passed away on Friday. My brother and sister-in-law, Louie & Mary, and Glenn, and I went to her funeral today. After the program at Forest Lawn in Covina there was a reception at her son John & Laura Tovar’s home in San Dimas.
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Perez Family Oral History

VidCaps of Cecilia "Sheila" Perez Zucman talking about Perez family history

Here are a few oral history videos where I talk about our family history.
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My Sister, Esther, at about 16

Esther Perez, about 16 years old

Esther Perez, about 16 years old

This is my aunt Maria, her son angel, my sister Esther & Maria’s daughter Julie.

My aunt Maria was my Uncle Luis’ wife, my uncle Luis was my mother’s brother.

Photo of Esther Perez Sapien at about age 16

This is Cecilia, my aunts Maria’s daughter by a previous marriage, my sister Esther and my cousin Julie.