Comments on: A Visit With Mrs. Pancho Villa

By: Alberto Gonzalez

Alberto Gonzalez — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:59:45 +0000

My Grandfather rode with Pancho Villa (Bessie Quijada is my cousin) I have a picture with Luz Villa my Grandfather (Ricardo Gonzalez) and father Gustavo Gonzalez, I always remember that day the photo was taken ,I was about 6 years old and remember playing in the house while grandfather and Mrs Villa talked, there was also an old car at this house that is said to belong to Pancho Villa.

By: Bessie Quijada

Bessie Quijada — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:34:35 +0000

My grand mother’s brother, Ricardo Gonzales, rode with The General Pancho Villa. In the Military Classics Illustrated (News Letter) there is a photo of My great uncle Ricardo on horseback along with Pancho Villa and about 5 or 6 other riders. My uncle is to Pancho Villas left. I have a photo of my uncle with Mrs Pancho Villa (Dona Luz) taken at La Quinta Manor where she lived until her death. The Villa’s manor is a museum in Chihuahua, MX. In the Military Classics Illustrated along with the photo of my uncle with Pancho Villa there is an article titled, The Villistas: Soldiers in Sombreros and Suit Coats By Don Fuchik.

By: Richard D. Hilbert

Richard D. Hilbert — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:45:14 +0000

I read your article about your visit to Sra. Luz Corral Villa. My Aunt Margret was a very close friend of Luz Villa and they [frequently corresponded] during the years before their deaths.

They first met in Chihuahua, Mexico, and it was around the period when the Villas lost their daughter. My aunt was not adopted by the Villas but she was favored by them because of the close relationship that my grandfather, Mr John Jones, and my grandmother, Libertada Morales [had with the Villas]. As the story goes, Pancho once saw my Aunt Margret on a rocking horse and asked her if she liked horses and of course my aunt answered “Yes, I love horses.” The following day Pancho Villa showed up at my grandfathers house with a black pony for my aunt.

Throughout the years, Luz Villa and my Aunt Margret kept correspondence and passed Christmas cards and letters back and forth. The orignal letters are safeguarded by my uncle who is now 84 years old and living in Southern California.

With best regards,
Richard D Hilbert

By: Doug "Diego" Rhodes

Doug "Diego" Rhodes — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:39:46 +0000

Wow, by coincidence I also visited Luz Corral in 1974, it was in December, quite a lady. When Villa died, he left 4 legitimate widows, different holdings were divided with Luz getting Quinta Luz. If memory serves me right a quinta was a fifth of a piece of land which would be used to build the main hacienda building. I do not recall all details but that is more of less the way it went. Quinta later became the name given to a country manor and similar things. Don, by the way was one fantastic man who, on his deathbed made certain his wife sent money to help people of the Sierra–you were lucky to have known him.

Doug “Diego” Rhodes
Hotel Paraiso del Oso