Baurú & São Paulo folks visit relatives in Marília in February 1968

Sandra Helena Amorim (11), Günther Karg Jr (12), tia Antonia Amorim Karg (46), tia Maria Rosa Amorim Bellini (30), Osvaldo Luiz Amorim (15); kneeling on the hot asphalt are Rute Maria Amorim (6), Altina Rosa Bellini (8), Arthur Bellini Jr. (4) & an unidentified child.

back row from left to right: Maria Rosa Amorim Bellini, Yolanda Darin Amorim, Osvaldo Luiz, an unidentified girl; front row Rute Maria, Sandra Helena, Angela Maria Bellini, Altina Rosa Bellini; kneeling on the ground: Arthur Bellini Jr. and Alberto Luis Bellini.

Albina Rosa de Jesus died on 5 March 1984

 

This is most certainly the last photo of my grandmother Albina Rosa de Jesus - here with her second oldest daughter Dulce Roza Amorim some time in late 1983, at Dulce's garden on Rua Ignacio Pereira da Rocha, in Pinheiros, São Paulo. Albina would die a few weeks later on 5 March 1984. 

Albina, Dulce, Celso & Sonia Tanganelli and Paulo Cesar (at his wheel-chair); on the front row are Gabriel's twin boys, Sergio & Ricardo plus an non-identified girl.

Avó Albina ahead in years, she'd only live one-and-a-half year after this shot. Her body language reveals to me she was living some place different than the one she as. She has that far-away look of someone seeing a ship far away at sea. 

Today, 16 November 2023, I was thinking deeply about my Grandmother Albina... She didn't have a place of her own. Since my Granfather died in 1969, her house on Rua Mato Grosso, was 'dismantled' and she lived mostly at my aunt Antonia house in Baurú and sometimes she'd stay with Maria Rosa at the other side of Mato Grosso...but she had too many children, like 2 girls and 2 boys. I was wondering how comfortable she felt when moving from Antonia's, Maria Rosa's, Dulce's and in shorter stays at Yolanda's, Francisca's and Eunice's.

Albina was from a rural outfit. She had lots of brothers and sisters who mostly worked in coffee, cotton or sugar-cane plantations. The boys didn't manage to live too long mostly bogged down in alchoholism when adults. Anna actually outlived Albina; Maria Rosa & her husband got detached from the rest while still at a city junction at Luz Railway Station when migrating from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo and was never to be found... And Margarida died in her late 40s.

Schooling in Marilia

 

III Grupo at Vila São Miguel on Rua Bartolomeu de Gusmão - 1957.

III Grupo, 1962. 

Colégio Sagrado Coração de Jesus in 1959; Regina Celi Coercio, Maria Eugênia Tanuri Caetano, Esmil Delboni, Maria Amelia Cavichiolli, Regina Menin Gartner, Latife Baaklini & others. 

Dislene de Oliveira writes: Encontrei meu boletim. O nome da escola é Escola Mista da Vila Palmital. Professora Neide Aparecida de Oliveira (de óculos) à esquerda. 

Álvaro B Muzzi writes: Estudei na Escola Municipal da Vila Palmital, em 1944 e 1945. O endereço era na Avenida República, logo após a rua Osvaldo Cruz, uma casa de madeira. Minha professora foi Sizina Lacerda e Silva. 

Albertino José De Souza Souza writes: Estudei lá também. Me lembro que chamávamos de Escolinha da dona Neide. O prédio está lá Rua Pedro de Toledo, perto da rua Osvaldo Cruz.

Walter Pereira writes: Tomaz Antônio Gonzaga: eu no segundo ano de 1950, professora dona Elizabeth. Tive de deixar a escola p'ra vir p'ra São Paulo com a família. 19/7/1950. Muitas saudades dessa época. 

Bairro Tiverón, Marília, 1928.

I Grupo Escolar de Marília, in 1933.

Placidina Nazaré's funeral in Ourinhos-SP in 1923

 

Last goodbye! My grandfather Fernando Antonio Amorim (wears a bow-tie) says his last goodbye to his mother Placidina Maria Nazaré, in Ourinhos in 1923. 

Here are the few data I know about my grand-daddy Fernando Antonio Amorim. Most of the information was conveyed by my aunt Antonia Amorim Karg:

Jacinto Antonio Amorim married Placidina Maria Nazareth 

they had (at least) 9 children in or near São Sebastião do Rio Bonito-RJ

1. João Amorim - married Maria; supposedly died of STD 

2. Maria Nazareth (her Christian name is lacking or it functions as name and surname) Antonia Amorim says she had a son called Pedro who sometimes wrote letters from RJ state; he had a nice handwriting.

3. Adelina Maria Nazareth married Arlindo and went to Paraná; stayed in bed most of the morning and only got up when the sun was up high. Apparently her staple food was angú (maiz flour with water) & beans (feijão). 

4. Firmino Amorim aka Danga - was of short stature (like his younger brother Fernando). He used to share accomodation with Antonio & Joaquinzinho, our aunt Francisca de Oliveira's uncle. 

5. Joaquim Amorim - died at 2 years old when boiling water fell on him.

6. Aspásia Maria Nazareth - never married ('pura & casta' according to Antonia); Died of electrical shock when she touched a live wire while the electricity grid was being introduced in Marília-SP. She lived in the same quarters as her sister Emilia aka Tia Nenê and her niece Chica (Virgilina). 

7. Emília Maria Nazareth aka Tia Nenê born in 1889; six years older than her brother Fernando Antonio, she always lived not too far from him. Migrated to Ourinhos in São Paulo state in 1918, then moved to Marília-SP around the time Fernando re-settled there circa 1932. Emília had at least 2 daughters: Catharina & Virgilina still in Rio. We'll talk about her elsewhere. 

8. Fernando Antonio Amorim  * 18 May 1895 + 13 February 1969. 

9. Virgilio Amorim * 7 June 1900  + 4 September 1986.

João Amorim & his maternal grandmother Florência Rosa de Jesus aka Dindinha.

Today, 16 November 2023, I was thinking deeply about my Grandmother Albina... She didn't have a place of her own. Since my Granfather died in 1969, her house on Rua Mato Grosso, was 'dismantled' and she lived mostly at my aunt Antonia house in Baurú and sometimes she'd stay with Maria Rosa at the other side of Mato Grosso...but she had too many children, like 2 girls and 2 boys. I was wondering how comfortable she felt when moving from Antonia's, Maria Rosa's, Dulce's and in shorter stays at Yolanda's, Francisca's and Eunice's.

Albina was from a rural outfit. She had lots of brothers and sisters who mostly worked in coffee, cotton or sugar-cane plantations. The boys didn't manage to live too long mostly bogged down in alchoholism when adults. Anna actually outlived Albina; Maria Rosa & her husband got detached from the rest while still at a city junction at Luz Railway Station when migrating from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo and was never to be found... And Margarida died in her late 40s.

AMÉRICA DARIN NOGUEIRA (17 April 1907 - 11 March 1990)

 

América Darin, Luiz Carlos Amorim & Rosa Darin in Marília, 1989. 

Sidney Nogueira (1932-1990).

Laila Nogueira. 

Lumena Nogueira. 

América Darin * 17 April 1907, in São José do Rio Pardo-SP  + 11 March 1990 married 

Deoclydes Carlos Nogueira  * 31st October 1907  + 15 March 1993

1. Milton Carlos Nogueira  * 5 November 1929

2. Sidney Nogueira  * 24 October 1932  + 26 August 1990 (57)

Antonia & Mario Amorim

Ambition is a force which drives people in different ways and intensity. Among the 7 Amorim siblings born of Fernando Antonio Amorim and Albina Rosa de Jesus, 

Antonia (1921), 

João (1923), 

Mario (1926), 

Dulce (1929), 

Claudio (1931), 

Luiz (1934) and 

Maria Rosa (1938) 

we could surely say Antonia and Mario were the ones conscious of their socio-economic situation at a fairly early age and did their utmost to get away from poverty. 

Antonia who had been blessed by good looks managed to enter the work force of a Canadian multinational called Brazilian Telephone Company which established itself in Marilia in the 1930s. 

Mario who started working as a cotton picker, factory-hand and as a shoe-cobbler soon realized he had to have an education in order to climb the social ladder. Mario was the first and only Amorim progeny who entered and completed high school going on to enter Normal Course and become an elementary-school teacher. Not that he wanted to become a school-teacher which was a profession almost exclusively chosen by females, but to go on to further his education. 

In 1685, St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, established the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, founded what is generally considered the first normal school, the École Normale, in Reims, Champagne, France. 

The term "normal" in this context refers to the goal of these institutions to instill and reinforce particular norms within students. "Norms" included historical behavioral norms of the time, as well as norms that reinforced targeted societal values, ideologies and dominant narratives in the form of curriculum.

cousins José Martins, José de Oliveira & Mario Amorim.

Mario visits Ourinhos and have a portrait with his cousin Benjamin de Oliveira. 

Mario with two of his mates at Tiro de Guerra in Marília, in 1945.

Dulce with Gabriel, Fernando smiles lightly; Yolanda holds Luiz Carlos; Lulú just stares...

At Rua Goiáz, in the summer of 1951; Mario holds Gabriel. Fernando looks elsewhere.

Antonia smiles... Fernando is lost in his own world... summer 1951.

Dulce smiles; Fernando never looks at the camera.

Claudinho, Albina, Antonia holds Erica & Fernando looks at the camera; summer 1956.

Antonia Amorim & Paulo de Oliveira in Ourinhos circa 1949.