What is your full name? Santiago “Jimmy” Valdez

How old are you? 72, I was born on July 13, 1933.

What is your religion? Catholic.

Are you a resident of Losoya? Yes

What do you do for a living? I am the superintendent of El Carmen Cemetary.

Do you know how the town was founded? Losoya fought against Santa Ana.

Where does the town’s name come from? Martinez and Losoya were fighting for the land, they got half and half of the land that they were fighting for, that is what they give it their names.

Do you have family here? Yes

Are you married? Yes

Do you have any children and if so how many? Yes, One daughter and five sons, one of my sons is a police officer in Fort Worth. The rest of their sons worked in Kelly.

Do your sons and daughter live here? No, they move out of Losoya.

Do you all have a good school district? Yes, the school is big and they have from pre-school, to high school.

Do you attend to school here? Yes, but in that time they just had until sixth grade.

What is the predominant religion here in Losoya? Catholic, almost 90% of the population is Catholic.

Do you have security in this town? Yes, we have good security provided by the county.

Have you seen technological changes? No

What attracts people to Losoya? Nothing, just the cemetery because they came to visit their relatives here.

What type of job opportunities are available here in Losoya? There are not job opportunities, everybody goes downtown and works there.

Have you seen any changes in the town? No, the county fix the streets and everything but just when they want. They put the water in 1979, the President was Antonio Rodriguez.

How is the economy here in Losoya? There is no economy here; people have to go out of the town to get a job.

Do people move out of the town, or they stay here? A lot of people move out and they don’t come back, they just came to visit their relatives and the cemetery.

What is the predominant race here? Mexican-American, but they don’t want to be Americans.

Are there racist people here? No, there are not racist people. But what I don’t like is that Mexicans came here and when you ask them where are they from, they say that they are Mexicans, not Americans. I don’t like when they say that they are Mexicans, they supposed to say that they are Americans because they eat from here. The other time I took off a Mexican flag, because somebody had a Mexican flag larger than the U.S. flag and the Mexican flag doesn’t supposed to be higher than the U.S. flag.