About the Author
About The Author
Chris William Palomares born the day of Sunday in Oxnard California in the month of December on the 31st day of the year 1961. A direct descendant of Jose Cristobal Palomares his great-great-great-great-grandfather a native of Spain, who would migrate to Monterey, Mexico, in the early part of the 17th Century who eventually migrated to Santa Barbara & Los Angeles, California to server as a soldier for the missions of Santa Barbara and San Gabriel California. His son Ygnacio Palomares built the Palomares Adobe in Pomona California in the early 1800’s. Chris Palomares, born some 100 years later in Oxnard, California, was also a soldier who served in Europe in the 1980s and eventually would obtain a technology degree and serve in civil service for the County of Ventura as well as the State of California in information technology continuing the rich history of the Palomares Family dedication to service and valor to this country.
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As a child, Chris would marvel at the rich history of the Palomares Family Adobe. As a teen Chris would make a promise to himself that he would someday continue the book written in the 1920s by Bess Adams Garners’ Windows In An Old Adobe. Chris’s Tia Carmelita Mata Palomares would enrich Chris with the romantic notions pertaining to his ancestors and how they lived in Pomona under the groves of the Palomares Adobe. Chris lived with his Tia Carmelita during his turbulent teen years in Rosemead, California. Carmelita would adopt Chris as her own and would bring Chris as she attended meetings with “Los Californios,” a conscientious historical organization that would even further instill Chris’s curiosity and wonders about his ancestors and how California owed so much respect and admiration for its rich historical treasure that is the Palomares Family of California. Chris retired in 2022 and resides in Sacramento, California. Chris will now tell you his story some 50 years in the making.
