Acosta Bañuelos was born in the small mining town of Miami, Ariz., in 1925 to immigrant parents, but was one of thousands who left the country during the Great Depression when the government ordered the mass repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans. She was seven when she moved to her parents' native Sonora, Mexico. At 15, she married and by 18, she had two sons.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 22, 2018 22:59 UTC