Navarro-Dowling Family

Collection

Identifier: SPC-2024-022

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Navarro-Dowling Family Collection (1965-1990; undated) contains one box and .21 linear feet with an autobiography written by Lenora Bautista Navarro, a biography about Lenora Bautista Navarro written by Carmen Navarro, letters from Prisca Navarro to Carmen Navarro, letters from Lenora Bautsta Navarro to Prisca Navarro, and an article from The Philippine Educator. Letters discuss domestic and family life; health updates; and information regarding coming to American from the Philippines.

Dates

1965-1990; undated

Creator

Navarro Dowling, Lenora (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

Lenora Bautista Navarro was born in the early 1900s and passed away on September 1987. She grew up in La Union, Philippines where she also studied to become a teacher and eventually taught for seventeen years. She was married to Alejandro Navarro, on August 4, 1928. Lenora Bautisa Navarro's children include: Carmen Dowling, Lenora Navorra Dowling, and other unnamed sons and daughers. Her sister was Prisca Bautista.

Alejandro Navarro was born in the Phiippines. He was sent to Manila in order to learn Spanish.He worked as a driver for an Archbishop Father James Cantwell when he got discharged in San Francisco. When he arrived in Hawaii at the age of 17, he was registered as Alex Navarro so he was also referred to Alex when he enlisted into the United States Navy and sent to be based in California. After four years, they wanted to reassign him to a different location, but he refused and was honorably discharged.

Information has been extracted from "This is the life story of Leonora Bautisa Navarro as told to Lenore Navarro Dowling" (Box 1, Folder 7)