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Ernestina Torres Quintana (91) March 23, 1917 - April 4, 2008 Daughter of Juan Antonio Torres Sr. and Francisquita Trujillo Torres of Raton, New Mexico. Ernestina was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and baptized on April 10, 1917, at the San Felipe Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ernestina is the granddaughter of Jose Luis Torres and Sara A. Torres of Southeastern Colorado. Ernestina has two brothers, Juan A. Torres Jr. living in Raton, New Mexico and Joe V. Torres (deceased); and one sister, Francis Torres (deceased). Ernestina is survived by her two sons, Joe F. Quintana from Albuquerque, New Mexico and Eddie E. Quintana from Santa Fe, New Mexico; whose father was Eddie G. Quintana (deceased). Ernestina has three grandsons, Brian, Eddie, Justen; and two step-grandchildren, Noland and Marisa. Ernestina graduated from Raton High School in 1937 then moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico after going to school in El Rito, New Mexico for cosmetology and graduated in 1940. She was employed by the El Fidel Hotel and later owned her own business on Rosario Blvd in Santa Fe until she retired in 1998, then moved to Albuquerque to be cared for by her son, Joe. Ernestina married Patricio A. Quintana of Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 11, 1941, at the Sacred Heart Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Patricio A. Quintana died as a prisoner of war in the Battann prisoner camp on July 16, 1942. Ernestina and Patricio had one child named Pat Quintana Jr. who passed away on the family ranch near Chico, New Mexico when he was six years old. In 1951, Ernestina married Eddie G. Quintana and divorced in 1960. In lieu of flowers, the Quintana family would like donations to go to the Carmelite Monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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