Josephine Vigil Martinez of Chimayo, NM passed away on June 9, 2023 at the extraordinary age of 104. Whenever she was asked what the secret to her longevity was, she
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In her own words:
PATSY ELOISE JONES GREENE was born in Roswell, NM on August 13, 1935 to Charles Anderson Jones and Olive Eleanor Lhamon Jones. My brother Walter was born in 1942. I was schooled in Roswell, Capitan, and Loretto Academy in Santa Fe, and graduated from Capitan High School in 1953. I attended NMSU for one year and met future husband, Charles Greene, for the second time. The first time was in 1946 when he was working for the Hendricks Co., the owners of the Flying H ranch and also the 9H6 ranch my father was managing. In 1953, Charles came to the Zeta Tau Alpha house where I had baked a pie. Only after we were married on August 19, 1954 did he find out it was frozen. (Charles’s note: it wasn’t the pie that made me marry her.) I attended NMSU to get a BS in Home Economics but got my MRS instead.