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About Josephine Sarah Esterly
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Mother of actress Raquel Welch (Jo Raquel Tejada). Josephine Hall "Jo" Esterly, 91, died Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2000, at her home. Born July 11, 1909, in Chicago, she lived in Rancho Bernardo for nine years. She did clerical work for General Dynamics/Convair and was a member of Pacific Beach Presbyterian Church. She was named Woman of the Year in 1981 for the San Diego Chapter of the American Business Women's Association. Josephine married twice. First to Armando Carlos Tejada. They divorced and she later married Rick Esterly. Mrs. Esterly is survived by her husband of 23 years, Rick Esterly of Rancho Bernardo; son James Tejada of Santa Barbara; daughters Raquel Welch of Beverly Hills and Gayle Tejada Pate of La Jolla; and grandchildren Damon Welch, Tahnee Welch, Ryander Tejada and Adi Tejada. A family memorial service was held Sunday, Oct. 22.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raquel_Welch
Raquel Welch was born as Jo Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the first child of Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo and Josephine Sarah Hall.[5][6] Her father, Armando Tejada, was an aeronautical engineer from La Paz, Bolivia, son of Agustin Tejada and Raquel Urquizo.[7] In 2010, while she was being interviewed on the talk show Tavis Smiley, Welch stated, "My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent."[8][9][10] Her cousin, Bolivian politician Lidia Gueiler Tejada, became the first female President of Bolivia and the second female non-royal head of state in the Americas.[11] Welch was named after her paternal grandmother.[1][12] Her mother, Josephine Hall, was the daughter of architect Emery Stanford Hall and his wife Clara Louise Adams; she was of English ancestry.[13] Welch had a younger brother, James "Jim" Tejada, and she had a younger sister, Gayle Tejada.[14]
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- https://ethnicelebs.com/raquel-welch
- https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=128059583
- https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=annak1&i...
- https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&n=welch&oc=0&p=raquel&type...
- https://famouskin.com/pedigree.php?name=15088+raquel+welch&ahnum=1 Cites
- 1. Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1910, Chicago, Ward 13, ED #647, Sheet 1, Image 1 of 24.
- 2 Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1940, Chicago, Ward 48, Block 16, ED #103-3056, Sheet 2A, Image 3 of 24.
- 3 Illinois, U.S., Federal Naturalization Records, 1856-1991, Petition for naturalization for spouse Armando Tejada Urquizo.
- 4 The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 17, New York: James T. White and Company (1920), 9.
- 5 U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-Current, Death record for Josephine Esterly.
- 6 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Claim record for Josephine Hall Esterly.
- 7 IMDb, "Biography for Raquel Welch", (accessed 02/05/2013).
- 8 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 306.
- 9 Wikipedia, "Raquel Welch", (accessed 02/05/2013).
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Josephine Sarah Esterly's Timeline
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July 11, 1909
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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September 5, 1940
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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October 17, 2000
Age 91
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Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States
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