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Living a happy life in Quincy
Tammara Green/Post-Register
Carlos Reyes and his wife, Delores, have lived in Quincy since 1956.
Carlos Reyes, 82, followed his in-laws, Juan and Natalia Garcia, from Edinburg, Texas to Quincy in 1956.
Reyes, who was looking for work at the time, found plenty here in a small farming community.
It was just what he needed to be able to maintain his growing family, which included his wife, Delores, and their children Carlos, Hector, Lupe, Silvia and Irma. Their sixth child, Margie, would be born later in Quincy.
Reyes started out working in a spearmint farm for almost nine years, until he was hired by John D. Miller, a rancher who leased a farm in the Quincy Valley and worked it during the growing season. Reyes was a head supervisor, training new workers how to work on the tractors, as well as other tasks. Eventually he began working for Howard Morgan, who grew beans and sugar beets.
“There are no more beets,” Reyes noted.
Carl Yeates hired him after a few years, and he found his niche, working for Yeates for almost 11 or 12 years.
“There was always work here. I like the small town,” said Reyes.
He recalled that they were just about the only Hispanic family in town when they came. His daughter, Lupe, remembered that it was a difficult adjustment at first.
“I sat in the classroom, and I didn’t know what anyone was saying. I started to cry and my brother, Carlos, had to come and sit with me in class,” she said.
Reyes has six children, 17 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren. He likes to fish and hunt, and travel with his wife, Delores, to visit relatives in Colorado or Texas. Most of all he loves coming home to Quincy.
“I’ve lived a happy life here,” said Reyes.
