Mother was a voice of someone from “the Greatest Generation” who lived from 1914 - 2011. She was not rich or famous, although she met many who were. She was simply Beatrice Garcia,...ver másMother was a voice of someone from “the Greatest Generation” who lived from 1914 - 2011. She was not rich or famous, although she met many who were. She was simply Beatrice Garcia, a Mexican-American woman rich in life experiences and blessed with the intelligence and mental capacity and wit to write and finish telling her life story at the age of 96.
Mother had a certain way of telling her stories that captured your attention and transported you to that time and space. Whether it was from her storehouse of personal experiences or a Bible story, she took you there, and as she spoke it you lived it.
Her book unveils the life of a resourceful fatherless girl that learns early on that life’s adversities can become opportunities and paths to knowing the power of Christ’s love. The courage of her youth, the proving of her faith, and her wisdom and steadfast commitment to the gospel of Jesus Christ, are revealed in this autobiography.
The last 6 years of her life, Beatrice lived with me, Elizabeth Martin, her oldest daughter, in Fullerton, California. During this time, my sister Alice Landeros and I were able to capture all the final stories of her life. One week before her passing, on July 31, 2011, she had the joy of knowing that we had just completed translating her book "The Strings of My Heart" to Spanish, "Las Notas De Mi Corazon."ver menos