Summary
Since she was a little girl growing up in La Puente, Juanita Manzanares has had an excellent work ethic. She credits this to her parents, the late Frank and Carmen Manzanares, who taught their children to work hard and pursue their education.
When she was 15, her parents sent her to a private, all-girl's boarding school in St. Louis so she could do just that. Despite the lack of money the family of farmers had, they still managed to send all of their children away to school.See the full content of this document
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The Gift of Knowledge
"A lot of people interpreted this as my parents 'getting rid of them,' but it wasn't that," Manzanares said. "My dad always had this desire to expose us to whatever he wasn't exposed to. He wanted us to be challenged in this life and for us to get as many o...
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