The Buchholdt Family: Thelma (center); front row: Hans, Dylan (holding telephone with Cara Elton on the line from Auburn, Alabama), Chris, Julia Sadowski, and Jon Buchholdt; back row: Gary Ray, Ryan, and Titania.  Inset:  Rocco Ray.

The Garcia Siblings: from left, Melvyn, Rhoda, Nancy, Thelma, Jeanette (Janet), Eloy.

Thelma and her mother Dionisia de Leon Garcia

Thelma and her father Eugenio Garcia

Family Home in Poblacion (downtown), Claveria.  The house was built circa 1938, and occupied by Japanese military officers during World War II.

Jon and Thelma Buchholdt

With Grandson Rocco Ray,

age ten months.

Thelma (back row, right) with sister and brother-in law, niece and nephews, and children in San Diego in 1968.