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Having a place to call home
Tammara Green/Post-Register
Jasmine Diaz has found Quincy to be a good place to settle and raise a family.
Jasmine Diaz has made an interesting journey to the heart of the Quincy Valley. She was born in Los Angeles to migrant farmworkers, and grew up in Porterville, Calif. As a young girl, she traveled up to Washington state during the summer to pick cherries and apples.
“Every year we came to Pasco and Wenatchee to work. Finally in 1985, we decided to stay,” said Diaz.
Although the family stayed in Washington after that time, they still continued to move around Eastern Washington. Diaz left Sunnyside School District after only two months in 1985, until the family moved to Quincy. When she arrived, Diaz was in the sixth grade, and only spent a quarter there before the family relocated again to Moses Lake. It was there that they settled for a while until Diaz graduated in 1992.
Right after graduation, in October of that same year, she married Ignacio Diaz, who is currently a manager at Double M Orchards. She and her new husband found a little place in the country in Quincy to settle down, where they have lived since 1992. Diaz and her husband had their oldest child, Elizabeth, two years after they moved to the Quincy Valley. Diaz spent most of her time between staying at home and going to school at Big Bend Community College.
“I want to try to become a teacher eventually. I love working with little kids,” she said.
For the last five years, she worked for Double M Orchards. She was looking forward to her only daughter’s graduation, and spending time alone with her husband. Then 22 months ago, Diaz was shocked to learn that they were expecting a second child. The new addition, Natalie, is now 13 months old.
“I keep wondering why I am so tired, and everyone reminds me that it is because I am running after a baby. She really is a blessing,” she said.
Diaz has taken time off work to stay at home with her girls, which is the most rewarding thing to her right now. She enjoys watching movies, the outdoors, reading, and listening to all types of music.
“I like that Quincy is a small community and people are so friendly. They go out of their way to help,” said Diaz. Her mother, father, two brothers and two sisters have also settled in the area.
