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Melba (LaPaglia) Perez fondly recalls her father, Vincent LaPaglia, as a very industrious man. Vincent immigrated from Calachie-Veta, Sicily (Italy), to Chicago. He then later moved to Colorado where he mined coal for a time. When Vincent settled in Chandler, he bought 40 acres of land and began farming. On April 28, 1918, Vincent married Melba's mother, Carmen Duron. Carmen immigrated from Sonora, Mexico, to Chandler where she lived on the Duron family farm.
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