About Me
THIS PAGE IS IN HONOR OF MY GRANDFATHER, BORN OCTOBER 18TH, 1928, AS RAFAEL ENRIQUE SUÃREZ-TEJADA, IN MOQUEGUA, PERÚ, WHICH WAS THE SOUTHERN MOST POINT OF PERÚ AT THE TIME, THE CHILEANS HAVING TAKEN A GREAT PORTION OF THE SOUTHERN COAST OF PERÚ IN THE CENTURY PRIOR, HIS FATHER, MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER, ALSO RAFAEL, WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE MILITARY IN THE REGION, THE NEXT YEAR IN 1929, PÈRU RECUPERATED TACNA PROVINCE FROM THE CHILEANS. SOON AFTER RAFAEL TOOK HIS CHILDREN TO LIMA, WERE MY FATHER, AUNTS & UNCLES WERE BORN.IN 1947 AT THE AGE OF 19 MY GRANDFATHER STARTED WORKING IN A BANK IN LIMA AS A CASHIER. HE MARRIED MY GRANDMOTHER LUISA ARANA-SOTOMAYOR IN LIMA IN 1950, MARRYING AT MY AGE CURRENTLY, 22. HE WORKED HIS WAY UP, & BY THE 1950S BECAME A BANKER & WORKED THROUGH-OUT THE COUNTRY. HE EVENTUALLY BECAME A MASON, A MEMBER OF A FRATERNAL CLUB, & BECAME A SENIOR MEMBER AT THE 33RD LEVEL. HE WAS A INTELLECTUAL & READ & WROTE FREQUENTLY TILL HE SUFFERED A STROKE IN DECEMBER OF 1999, HAVING SURVIVED ALMOST ANOTHER 5 YEARS.I FIRST SAW MY GRANDFATHER IN CHRISTMAS 1984 ONLY A COUPLE MONTHS AFTER MY BIRTH WHEN WE WENT FOR A VACATION IN PERÚ, ME HAVING BEEN BORN IN BOSTON, HE ALSO CAME TO VISIT US IN BOSTON IN THE 80S. IN THE SUMMER OF 1994, HE MOVED WITH US TO ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA FROM PERÚ, WHERE HE GOT HIS OWN PLACE, WORKED & WENT TO THE MASON LODGE IN ALEXANDRIA, WHERE HE RECEIVED MANY HONORS. AT FIRST HE LIVED WITH MY SISTER, FATHER & ME, I WAS ONLY 9 AT THE TIME BUT I REMEMBER WELL.YOU SHOULD SEE IN THE DISPLAY SOON THREE PHOTOS, ONE IS IN 1994, WITH MY UNCLE, GRANDFATHER & ME. THE OTHER TWO ARE OF HIM IN VIRGINIA AS WELL, THE ONE IN THE SNOW WAS TAKEN IN THE WINTER OF 1996. IN 1999 MY FATHER TOOK MY GRANDFATHER TO STAY WITH US IN NORTH CAROLINA & I HELPED TAKE CARE OF HIM, THEN IN THE SUMMER OF 2000 WE MOVED TOGETHER TO FLORIDA, TILL MY GRANDFATHER WAS SENT BACK TO PERÚ IN 2001, WHERE HE LIVED THE NEXT THREE YEARS. FROM 2002-2004 I LIVED IN LIMA & WAS ABLE TO VISIT MY GRANDFATHER IN HIS LAST DAYS, HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 75.RAFAEL FAMILY LEGACY:SONS & DAUGHTERS IN ORDER OF BIRTH AS FOLLOWS:PERCY, ENRIQUE, ROXANA, VERONICA & YURI.GRANDCHILDREN:TATHIANA, ALAN (SON & DAUGHTER OF ROXANA), ALEXANDER & NATASHA (SON & DAUGHTER OF ENRIQUE).GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN:FIORENZA & RAFAELLA (DAUGHTERS OF TATHIANA)PS: I DONT WANT YOU TO THINK MY GRANDFATHER WAS A GODFATHER MAFIOSO, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MENTIONED ABOVE, THIS IS A TRANSPARENT PROFILE, I ONLY PUT THE BACKGROUND BECAUSE THE CLASSIC MOVIE IS 1 OF MY FAVORITES FOR BEING SO REALISTIC, ALSO BECAUSE MARLON BRANDON REMINDED MY OF MY GRANDFATHER & THEY DIED AROUND THE SAME TIME, & THE MOVIE WAS 1 OF HIS BEST, & IT WAS ABOUT A FAMILY & THIS PAGE REPRESENTS FAMILY.
