Consuelo
Rumbaut Yanes
Born Ana Consuelo Micaela in Santa Clara, Cuba May
8, 1900 of Vicente Rumbaut
and Manuela Yanes.
Consuelo married Carlos Gilí de la Peña and had
three children:
Consuelo
died in Cuba August 3, 1979.
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María Agustina
Capote Yanes
Born in the Paraderos neighborhood of Camarones in 1894 of Antonio Capote and María Cristina Yanes.
Married Luis Manuel Laosa Ortega (b. 1894 in Santa
Clara) and had the following:
- Ovidio, born December 28, 1913
in Cruces. He was a skin specialist physician. He married Evora Vázquez Rosales and
had three children, including:
o
Maria
de Lourdes Loasa Vázquez,
born October 18, 1957
Ovidio died in Havana in 1972.
- Esther, born June 17,
1921 in Cruces. Lived in Miami and worked as a pharmacist. Married Emelino Consuegra and had:
o
Luis
Consuegra Laosa
María died in Havana at age 72.
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María Riera Almirall
Born
after the turn of the century of Miguel
Riera y Vidal and Rosa Almirall.
She
married José Sariol and had:
- Josep Sariol,
born 1935; killed in Sitges in 1983 (viciously
stabbed by an 18-year old).
- Juan Sariol,
born around 1940; lived in Tenerife, Canary Islands. His first
wife, Nenita, died of leukemia. He then
married Margarita “Pochi”.
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Rosa Riera Almirall
Rosa con su
hija Rosa María
Born
in the early 1900's of Miguel Riera y Vidal and Rosa Almirall.
She
married José Planas and had:
- Rosa María
Planas, who had polio as a child, which
affected her walk. She designed purses in Barcelona. She is the
godmother of Joan, the son of her cousin María Vinyet Sariol.
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María Albertí Riera
Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1902 of Sr. Albertí and
Salvadora Riera y Vidal.
Died in June, 1990 in Barcelona, Spain.
Married Narciso Gotarra
and had:
- María Nieves Gotarra, who lived on Calle
Mallorca in Barcelona.
- Hortensia Gotarra,
also lived on Calle Mallorca; professor of
Catalan language; divorced.
The
father of Narciso was José Gotarra,
a ship captain that often sailed to Cuba. Narciso
had an older brother who died in Cuba.
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Lino Tienda
Pedraza
Born after 1900 in Mexico of Anastasio Tienda and Francisca Pedraza.
Married Leocadia Sánchez and had:
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Josefa Eloina
Rosa Suco
López
Aka Fita.
Born
1903 in San Fernando de Camarones, Las Villas, Cuba
of Basilio Suco González and
Perseveranda López Fundora.
Married Miguel Murciano and had six children:
- Miguel Lázaro Alberto Ramón de la Caridad,
born in 1923, married Emilia Clotilde Ventosa and had three boys.
- Raúl, born in 1926, married
Ruth Martinez and had two children.
- Carlos Miguel, born in
1929, married Mariana Elena de Castro Bray and had four children. He
died in a plane crash in Peru in 1980.
- Carlos Ramón, born in
1929 (twin to Carlos Miguel), married Corina
Gil and had three children.
- Clara Rosa, born in
1933, married Delbert Foreman (one child) and later married Raúl Castro (three children).
Several
in the family became aviators. Clara lives in Savannah, Georgia.
Died 1998 in Miami, Fl.
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Inocencia Candida Rosa Mallo López
Aka Cuca.
Born
1906 in Cuba of Francisco Mallo and Carlina López.
Married Amado A. Jiménez
and had the following
children:
Died
1965 in Cuba.
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Ricardo
Rumbaut Yanes
with wife and children
Born
Ricardo Juan on March 27, 1907 in Cienfuegos of Vicente Rumbaut and Manuela Yanes.
Lived in Cienfuegos his whole life, where he had a very long career in
banking. He died there in December 1997, never having published his
book on 100 years of sports in Cienfuegos.
He married Nené Lindenmeyer and
had four children:
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Francisco
Mallo López (II)
Aka Paquito.
Born 1908 in Cuba of Francisco Mallo and Carlina López.
Had
several marriages but no children.
Died
1948 in Costa Rica.
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Mariita Díaz
Reyes
at the baptism of Carlos
Aka May.
Born
María Mercedes in Cuba in 190_ of Federico Díaz
and Agueda
Reyes.
Died in Havana, Cuba in the 1960's.
She was the godmother of Carlos Alberto Rumbaut.
She had an apartment across the street from Zoila Rosa's house in Havana.
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Antonio
Mallo López
Born Manuel Antonio Fernando Mallo y Lopez on May
30, 1911 at Nueva Gerona, Isla de Pinos, Cuba of
Francisco Mallo and Carlina López. Aka Toñito.
Married Amelia Maria Perez y Medina in 1936 and had the following children:
- Antonio Victor born
March 10, 1941 at Vedado, La Habana. Aka Tony.
- Nelson Rolando born Aug.
27, 1943 at La Vibora, La Habana.
- Celia Lourdes born May
18, 1961 at Miramar, Marianao, La Habana,
Cuba. Aka Celita. She married two times, but
had no children. Changed her name to Bianca M. Arditi
after she married Gils Arditi. Bianca Mallo y Perez died April 18, 1986 at Coral Gables,
Fla.
Antonio
Fernando Mallo y Lopez died in Miami on Aug.30,
2002. He was a retired Comandante (Capitan de Navio) Merito Militar y Naval of the Cuban Navy and Captain of the Army
Corps of Engineers.
His wife Amelia M. Perez y Medina, aka Amelita, was
born Nov. 27, 1912 at Mariel, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
and died June 6, 1991 in Miami, Florida.
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María Vinyet Ballester
Born in 191_ of Jose María Ballester
and Antonieta Houtench.
She became a nun but later left the order.
She was a secretary at a hospital in Catalonia.
Last
given residence: Catalonia.
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Monserrat Ballester
Born in 191_ of Jose María Ballester
and Antonieta Houtench.
Lived in Sitges, Spain.
Never married. Was living with her aged mother in 1990 at Calle
San Bartolomé.
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Nené Lindenmeyer
Alvarez
Born Antonia Bertha in January, 1910 of Alfonso Lindenmeyer
and ___ Alvarez.
Married Ricardo Rumbaut Yanes
and had:
Had
severe arthritis. Died in Cienfuegos in June, 1992 of complications after a
hip fracture.
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Gustavo Riera
Villafuerte
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with
sisters
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Aka
Tavito.
Gustavo Eugenio was born in Havana, Cuba on June 2, 1914 of Gustavo Riera
y Vidal and Josefa Villafuerte.
Married and divorced Mercy Grau.
Married Rosario Sierra in 1951 in Havana. They had the following
children:
Businessman
and owner of a furniture supply factory in Cuba, Compañía
Nacional de Huatas, S.A.
Gustavo and family left Cuba in October, 1960.
Died
of a cerebral hemorrhage on February 9, 1963 in Statesville, NC.
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Alicia
Rumbaut Toledo
Born Alicia de la Caridad Fidela
in Cuba April 24, 1914 of Vicente
Rumbaut Yanes and María Toledo de la Rosa.
Married Oscar LaBadie Martinez (who already had a
child named Oscarito) and had no children.
She held three doctorates and taught mathematics at the University of Havana.
Died in Havana in 2013. Oscar died in 2006.
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Montserrat Jansá
y Riera
Born 1915 in Catalonia of Pedro Jansá and Concha Riera y Vidal.
Lived
in Galicia, Spain.
She had two children:
- Jaime, a hotel manager in
Andorra in the Pyrenees
- María Vinyet
Died
a widow in 1990 in Galicia.
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Vicente
Rumbaut Toledo
Vicente
is at upper right.
Standing, L to R: Tavito Riera, Ana María, Merci Grau, Marrita Díaz, Pepita Riera, Laura Rumbaut,
Vicente’s wife, Héctor Rumbaut and Vicente.
Seated, L to R: Carucha
Rumbaut, Zoila Rosa López,
Rubén Darío Rumbaut, his wife Carmen holding son
Rubén Gustavo (whose baptism it was), and Father Lete.
Aka
Vicentico.
Born
Vicente Juan Gilberto July 12, 1917 of Vicente Rumbaut Yanes
and María Toledo de la
Rosa.
His
first marriage was to Pilar Zubillaga.
He was married twice more. With Elda Mas he adopted
one child,
- Julio, who has been very
successful in the U.S. Julio married Connie and they had:
o
Sarah
o
Madison
o
Lynsey
Previously
married to Linder and had:
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Elisa
§
Leslie
§
Paul
Vincent
Vicente
was the padrino of Rubén Gustavo Rumbaut. He died of a heart
attack in Puerto Rico on August 25, 1971.
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Pepita Riera Villafuerte
Born
María Josefa in Havana,
Cuba in 1918 of Gustavo Riera y Vidal and
Josefa Villafuerte.
Married Bernard Delorne, who died in the mid 90's.
She was the madrina of Rubén Gustavo Rumbaut.
Died in Miami, FL in 1998.
Author of Bajo el Hábito and several romance
novels; radio commentator first with then against Fidel Castro; CIA
operative.
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Elio René Alvarez López
Elio y Sylvia
circa 1949
Aka
Cuchú.
Born in Cienfuegos, Cuba April 14, 1919 of Elio
Alvarez and Carucho
López Fundora. He
studied Law at La Universidad de La Habana. He practiced law, then became Magistrate in the Audiencia
Suprema of Santiago de Cuba and in the Audiencia Suprema of Havana.
Married Sylvia Guerra (Pipo), who was born in Guanajay, Cuba on May 4, 1925. They had two daughters:
His
wife Pipo died in Miami on April 11, 2001.
Elio died in Miami on November
16, 2013.
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Luis
Homero Laosa Capote
Born October 13, 1919 of Luis Manuel Laosa and María Agustina
Capote.
Lived in Austin. He was a psychiatrist, and served as Superintendent of the
Texas State Hospital for many years. He married Gloria Movo and had three sons:
- Luis Miguel, a
psychologist in Princeton, NJ.
- Ricardo Alberto, a
psychologist in Seguin, TX.
- Miguel Angel, who was
publisher of the Austin
American-Statesman newspaper.
Died
in Austin in 2006.
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Aleida Maria Ugarte
Abreu
Born in Matanzas, Cuba on March
6, 1920.
Married Niso López and had two
girls:
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Marta
Alvarez López
Marta and Vitalia
Born in 1921 of Elio Alvarez and Carucho López Fundora.
Married
Manolo Alpendre and had
the following children:
Died
of cancer in Coral Gables, Florida in June, 1999.
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Luis Manuel Rumbaut Toledo
Luis Manuel y Cuquita
Born Luis Manuel Felipe February 6, 1922 in Cienfuegos of Vicente Rumbaut Yanes
and María Toledo de la
Rosa.
Lived
in Puerto Rico for a time.
He married Ana J. Oliver Sánchez (Cuquita) and had
the following:
Died
in Cienfuegos, Cuba on April 10, 2013.
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Lilia
Alvarez López
Born in 1922 of Elio Alvarez and Carucho López Fundora.
Married and divorced Dr. William C. Morris.
Living in New York, NY.
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Rubén
Darío Rumbaut López
Rubén
Darío Manuel was born in 1922 in Cienfuegos, Cuba
of Bienvenido
Rumbaut and Zoila Rosa López.
He had a long career in psychiatry, but was also an anesthesiologist, a
prolific journalist, a history author (the book John of God),
and a published poet (the book Esa
Palabra).
Married Carmen Riera
and had the following
children:
Rubén
and family left Cuba in July, 1960.
He
died in San Marcos, TX on March 14, 2003.
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Selected Works
A Remembrance
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Carmen Riera
Villafuerte
Aka
Carmita.
Born
María del Carmen in 1923 in Barcelona, Spain of Gustavo Riera
y Vidal and Josefa Villafuerte.
Married Rubén Darío
Rumbaut and
had the following children:
Carmen
and family left Cuba in July, 1960.
She
died in 1997 in Sugar Land, TX.
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Our First Year in Exile
A Remembrance
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Laura Rumbaut Toledo
Born Laura María in 1924 in Cienfuegos of Vicente Rumbaut Yanes
and María Toledo de la
Rosa.
Living in Havana, Cuba.
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Berta
Rosa López
(L to R) Zoila Rosa López, __ Gil de Murciano, Marta Alvarez López, Sara María López Fernández,
Berta Rosa, Silvia Guerra de Alvarez, Carucha Rumbaut López, Carmen Riera de Rumbaut
Born in Cuba in
192_ of Liberato López Fundora and ___Fernández.
Married Fernando Rodriguez, who died in 1995, and had:
- Lourdes, who married and
had children
- Ana Margarita, who
married and had children
Moved
to Miami, FL.
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Toribio Tienda
Sánchez
with children
Born
in Nuevo León, Mexico in 1925 of Lino
Tienda Pedraza and Leocadia Sánchez.
Married Azucena Aurelia Hernández López and had:
- Magdalena (b. 1948 in
Texas; has 5 children; living near Detroit, MI)
- Marta (b. 1950 in Texas;
has 2 children; living in Princeton, NJ)
- Juan Luis (b. 1951 in
Detroit; died 1976 near Austin, TX)
- Gloria (b. 1955 in
Detroit; has 3 children; living near Detroit, MI)
Migrated
to the US as a teenager and worked in Detroit as a steelworker for 30 years.
Moved to Pharr, TX. Died May 3, 2005.
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Héctor Rumbaut Toledo
Born Héctor Félix
Salvador June 23, 1926 of Vicente
Rumbaut Yanes and María Toledo de la Rosa.
He worked as a dentist in Madrid. He married and divorced Lydia (Bebita) Herrera Sotolongo Chacón, born in Cuba. They had one child,
- Pedro Vicente Ignacio
Rumbaut Herrera-Sotolongo, born April 9, 1950
in Havana. Pedro married Toni Loiki and had:
o
Lydia
María Rumbaut
Héctor's second marriage was to
Concepción (Conchita) Luna, born in Spain. He was
married to her at the time of his death November 16, 2008.
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Azucena Aurelita
Hernández López
Born in Detroit, MI in 1929 of Rodolfo Hernández
and Socorro López.
Married Toribio Tienda Sánchez in
Hidalgo county, Texas in 1947 and had the following children:
- Magdalena (b. 1948 in
Texas; has 5 children; living near Detroit, MI)
- Marta (b. 1950 in Texas;
has 2 children; living in Princeton, NJ)
- Juan Luis (b. 1951 in
Detroit; died 1976 near Austin, TX)
- Gloria (b. 1955 in Detroit;
has 3 children; living near Detroit, MI)
Lived
in Mexico much of her life.
Died in Detroit, Michigan in 1957.
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Rosario Sierra Arias
Aka Charo.
Born
March 13, 1930. Her mother was from Galicia and her father from
Asturias, both provinces of Spain.
She married Gustavo Riera
in Havana in 1951 and
had the following children
Died
in Statesville, NC on June 5, 2015. She and Gustavo are buried together in
Statesville.
Obituary
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Josefina
Gilí Rumbaut
Born Ana Josefa Teresita
in Cuba on April 18, 1929 of Carlos Gilí and Consuelo Rumbaut Yanes.
She was the oldest sibling. Had a career as a pharmacist.
She married Nestor Aldecoa and had a daughter named
- Teresita Aldecoa,
who married Jorge Lugo Mendoza and had a daughter named
o
Patricia
Lugo Aldecoa, born February 23, 1988
Josefina
passed away in Havana (Miramar) in July, 2000.
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Alma
Cristina
Born in Cuba in 1933 of Amado A. Jiménez and
Candida Mallo.
Lived in India and Nepal, where she studied Tibetan Buddhism.
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Carlos
Amado Jiménez Mallo
Born in Cuba in 1935 of Amado A. Jiménez and
Candida Mallo.
Married Margarita Hevia (Daisy) of Plano, TX and
had the following:
- Carlos Alberto Jiménez; born l959; living in Dallas, TX; married
Gina
- Roberto Miguel Jiménez; born l962; living in Telluride, CO
Divorced,
then married Lucrecia (Luchi)
Alonso, mother of:
Last
given residence: Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
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María
Consuelo Gilí Rumbaut
María Consuelo de Jesús (Maruja) was born April
17, 1935 in Cienfuegos of Carlos Gilí and Consuelo Rumbaut Yanes.
She
married Ceferino Martinez and had a child named
- Rubén
Martinez Gilí, born January 29, 1977
She
now lives in the Miramar neighborhood of Havana.
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Héctor
García Hernández
with Carucha
Aka Tony.
Born Héctor Antonio in Cuba in November, 1930 of
Antonio Luis García Reygada
and Estela Hernández Nodarce.
Married Carucha Rumbaut
and had two children:
Concert
musician, teacher of classical guitar.
[Selected recordings] [Interview]
Captured
at the Bay of
Pigs Invasion and held in prison for 20 months.
Tony
passed away on July 15, 2022.
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Carucha Rumbaut López
Aka Tita to her 6 nieces and nephews.
Born Milagros de la Caridad in Havana, Cuba in 1937
of Bienvenido
Rumbaut Yanes and Zoila Rosa López Fundora.
giving
a recital as a young girl
Married
and divorced Héctor García. They had two children:
Living
in Miami, FL.
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Ricardo Antonio
Rumbaut Lindenmeyer
with his cousin Carucha
Born
April 29, 1938 of Ricardo Rumbaut and Nené Lindenmeyer.
He worked as an architect. He first married Carmen Berrayarza
(Cuqui) and they had
- Ricard, born December 12,
1963. As a nuclear technician he worked on the plant in Cienfuegos.
- Alain, born October 6, 1967, is a
technician living in Cienfuegos.
Ricardo's
second marriage was to Moraina Rodríguez.
They have a son,
Last
given residence: Cienfuegos, Cuba.
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Roberto Rumbaut Lindenmeyer
Roberto and Bertha
Born Roberto Flavio Clemente June 22, 1939 of Ricardo Rumbaut and Nené Lindenmeyer.
He became a rower and a rowing trainer. He was in the Olympic rowing
team one year. He married Bertha Eloisa Caballero Hernandez. They had
two sons:
Bertha’s
mother, Bertha Hernández Madan,
died in Viña del Mar at age 96 in November 2007.
Roberto
died in December, 2019 while visiting his children in Chile.
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Carlos
Gilí Rumbaut
Carlos
Manuel José (Carlitos) was born in Cienfuegos
November 26, 1938 of Carlos Gilí and Consuelo
Rumbaut Yanes.
He
was a well-known actor in Cuban television. He married Josefina Méndez, a prima ballerina and one of the “Four Jewels
of Cuban ballet”. They had a child,
Carlos
died May 13, 1984.
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Antonio Ballester
Houtench
Born in Spain in 193_ of Jose María Ballester and Antonieta Houtench.
He had three children, one of which got married in 1990.
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Carmen Ballester
Houtench
Born in 193_ of Jose María Ballester
and Antonieta Houtench.
Her husband Pau died in 1990. They were both professors. They had
3 children:
- Pau
- Esperanza, born 1970,
who speaks four languages
- Jorge
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