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FROK7 <br />Boulder County Assessor floorplan c. 1961 <br />Maestas Family Ownership, 1963-2023 <br />The Maestas family has long roots in New Mexico and southeastern Colorado. Abe Maestas was the son <br />of Pedro Rosendo "Roy" P Maestas (1909-2003) who was born in New Mexico, and Ruby A Trujillo (1903- <br />1977) who was born in Colorado. Roy Maestas grew up in the coal mining region around Trinidad and <br />then moved to Boulder in 1930. Abelino "Abe" Maestas (1932-2003) and his sister Alice Maestas (1938- <br />1984) grew up in Boulder. Abe attended Boulder High School and after graduating, joined the U.S. Navy. <br />Around 1955, he married Virginia Bernal. <br />Isabel Virginia Bernal Maestas (1934-2022) lived in Longmont, and Chama, CO before moving to Boulder <br />around 1947. Her father, Perfecto Bernal (1901-1995) was born in New Mexico and worked as a stone <br />mason, then for the Denver Rio Grande Railroad, and eventually as a caretaker at Green Mountain <br />Cemetery in Boulder. Her mother, Theodorita "Dora" G Atencio (1911-1994) was born in Colorado. Dora's <br />family came to Boulder County for seasonal work in the beet fields in the 1920s and eventually moved <br />to Colorado to work for Great Western Sugar. After marrying and moving to Boulder, Dora worked in <br />domestic service. Both the Bernal and Maestas family histories and experiences as Mexican -Americans in <br />the 1940s-1970s are well -documented through the Boulder County Latino History Project. <br />14 <br />