Dolores García (1940–2017), Mamá Lola, came from a town outside Guadalajara in 1963, sewed in a garment factory downtown for twenty-six years, and ran the house on Fresno Street like a small and very loving country. Her tamales were the start of Christmas.
Early life
The second of nine. She learned to sew on her mother's treadle machine and could make a dress from a photograph in a magazine.
Family
She married Ernesto García in 1961 and followed him north two years later. Five children, all born in Los Angeles.
Stories about them
“She'd feed anyone who came to the door, and then ask who they were.” — her granddaughter Sofía