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Date:    		 Patxi Txurruka
Miel A. Elustondo
Reno, Nevada
April 23, 1995

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Patxi Txurruka was born in 1945 in Asterrika (near Ondarroa), Bizkaia. He talks about his childhood growing up in a baserri in the old country. Patxi came to the United States to work his brother Jose Mari at Willows, California in 1970. He looked back to all those years and he feels quite content.

 

 

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Patxi Txurruka
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about being Basque
about Basques living in Reno		 view photos
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Places

People

Topics

Years
Asterrika
Berrixu
Ondarroa
Gorozika
Willows, CA
Douglas, NV
Elko, NV
San Francisco, CA		 Miguel Angel Anacabe
Urkia
Ignacio Beketxe
Jose Mari Txurruka
Jesus Irazabal
Rubena & Gus Hoover
Mary Ann Hoover
Ricardo Madariaga
Eremun Jayo
Joe Guerricagoitia
Latzimin
Josu Aldekoa
Iñaki Muñoz		 Childhood in the Basque Country
First years in the US

 

 1945
1970
1975
 

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