Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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My Dad, Hector Jesus Leal, grew up during the Depression in abject poverty in the small town of Mercedes in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He narrowly escaped death at least three times - once when he was bitten by a black widow spider while relieving himself in an old outhouse; another when his appendix ruptured, forcing him to have emergency surgery; and he slept through some pretty massive bombing while serving in Korea as a corporal in the Army. He suffered hunger and beg...
