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Cesar retires from the Health Department in 2016

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Cesar and Norma celebrate 45 years of marriage

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Cesar plays an open Mic nite with his daughter Krystal. He dedicates a songs to his wife “You’re mine, and we belong together” and “Earth Angel”

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2018-2019 Sons move back home, daughter moves away

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2018-2019 Sons move back home, daughter moves away

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First, Erik moves back to be closer to work. Krystal moves to Phoenix but visits often. Then eventually Cesar IV’s starts going through a divorce and bad custody battle. The proceeding last for 4 years.

September: Cesar and Norma celebrate 50 years married

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In high school Cesar enjoys being in a club and playing guitar in a band. Playing music and singing becomes a great outlet for him for years to come.

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Parents and Siblings. All those kids from East Los Angelas and yes everybody graduated.

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Cesario Reta III was born to Mexican-American parents Cesario Reta II and Maria Vasquez. He was their 8th and final child. He had 6 brothers and 1 sister. As he grows up he is then called Cesar.

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Cesar is drafted into Army during the Vietnam War and stationed in Fort Huachuca

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Cesar is drafted into Army during the Vietnam War and stationed in Fort Huachuca

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A lottery drawing - the first since 1942 - was held on December 1, 1969, at Selective Service National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. This event determined the order of call for induction during calendar year 1970; that is, for registrants born between January 1, 1944, and December 31, 1950. Re-institution of the lottery was a change from the "draft the oldest man first" method, which had been the determining method for deciding order of call.

There were 366 blue plastic capsules containing birth dates placed in a large glass container and drawn by hand to assign order-of-call numbers to all men within the 18-26 age range specified in Selective Service law.

With radio, film, and TV coverage, the capsules were drawn from the container, opened, and the dates inside posted in order. The first capsule - drawn by Congressman Alexander Pirnie (R-NY) of the House Armed Services Committee - contained the date September 14, so all men born on September 14 in any year between 1944 and 1950 were assigned lottery number 1. The drawing continued until all days of the year had been paired with sequence numbers.

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Vietnam Lotteries | Selective Service System

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A lottery drawing - the first since 1942 - was held on December 1, 1969, at Selective Service National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. This event determined the order of call for induction during calendar year 1970; that is, for registrants born between January 1, 1944, and December 31, 1950.

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Cesar and Norma have their first child, Cesar IV

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Cesar graduates from medical school and legally changes his name from Cesario to Cesar.

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Cesar graduates from medical school and legally changes his name from Cesario to Cesar.

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Cesar gets accepted into medical school in Chihuahua Mexico

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Cesar gets accepted into medical school in Chihuahua Mexico

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He legally changes his name from Cesario to Cesar

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Cesar and Norma have their second child, Erik

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Cesar and family move back to the United States

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Cesar and family move back to the United States

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With Medical school complete, Cesar and family move to his wife’s hometown Yuma, Az. They build a house nearby in the Somerton area and Cesar starts working at the Health Department.

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Friend Manny Mercado, also in the service, tells Cesar that the girl he’s dating, Rosemarie Perez, has a pretty sister named Norma that he should meet. 

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Friend Manny Mercado, also in the service, tells Cesar that the girl he’s dating, Rosemarie Perez, has a pretty sister named Norma that he should meet. 

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Cesar marries Norma Perez

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Cesar and Norma have their third child, Krystal

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Cesar teaches his daughter to sing songs with him

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Cesar teaches his daughter to sing songs with him

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Krystal is three and loves to sing with her dad. She doesn’t like baby songs, she likes his music better. The first song they learn together is Charlie Pride’s “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone”. He teaches her George Straight and Randy Travis songs to. They keep singing and playing for years to come.

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Cesar is Diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. He is told best case is he could live maybe 11 more months. He gets his affairs in order, and begins treatment right away. Later it’s decided that his cancer is operable and gets scheduled for March 2020.

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Cesar’s work centers around epidemiology

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Cesar’s work centers around epidemiology

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Cesar is the only Epidemiologist in four hour radius. He becomes a liaison for nearby Mexico, the city, state, and CDC. He program coordinates for all nearby cases of STIs and HIV. Through his work he meets and helps many people treat and/or manage their illnesses. One patient he recalls made an impact leaving him with quote he really liked—“It takes all kinds to fill the freeway”. He feels it perfectly describes the diversity of people he treats and how people should not judge and doctors especially should give exceptional care towards every patient.

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Cesar develops a PowerPoints a goes in person to guest lecture for Jr. High, High Schools, and the local college health classes. His presentations become popular because he discusses scenarios, presents true facts and local stats, doesn’t sugar coat, allows for humor. He answered all the questions teens/adults have about how to prevent STIs, what to watch out for, how to get help, what happens when you don’t. Anyone that went to school in Yuma in the 90s-2015 saw his presentation at least once.

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Cesar and family sell the Somerton home and move to a house that they design and help build themselves from the ground up.

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Cesar and family sell the Somerton home and move to a house that they design and help build themselves from the ground up.

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Cesar and Norma get upright piano from a relative. Cesar’s makes a deal with his daughter Krystal to both learn piano. She’s in fourth grade when they begin. Many evenings are spent taking turns singing and playing. Sometimes Cesar would play guitar while Krystal plays piano. They take turns singing and harmonizing.

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Cesar and Norma Start a Small Car business

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Cesar and Norma Start a Small Car business

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The couple begins their first business, “Norma Enterprise”. They sold salvage restored vehicles. It was a good side hustle, they sold about two cars at a time and got to drive some nice cars. They sold mostly Toyota’s and Mercedes.

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Sadly their business associate and friend that they would purchase the cars from passed away. His name was Bernie, his son Bernie Jr. takes over for awhile but no ones heart is really into it like before so everyone agrees, it’s time to turn the page.

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Cesar reads a life changing book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. It inspires him to buy houses. Being a handyman, he starts buying homes to fix up and rent out. He gets his wife and sons to help out. They rent to section 8 housing where the government pays peoples rent. Little by little they acquire more and more properties.

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Cesar’s oldest son has two kids: Ethan Aaron Reta born November 1st, 2004 and Evan Michael Reta born March 10th, 2008.

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Post surgery, getting ready to come home… cancer free!

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Cesar has major surgery to operate on removing. Prayers are answered. It was a success, doctor believes he was able to get all the cancer. Post Surgery Cesar goes into remission.

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Just weeks following surgery, Yuma goes into quarantine. For Cesar and his family, all his children move back into to Yuma to quarantine together and support him post surgery. Cesar IV and Erik telework from their government jobs. His Daughter Krystal takes on gathering supplies for the household and cooking for the family. His wife, helps nurse him to health.

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1. Krystal moves into a rental in town and pursues her bachelors degree locally.

2. Son Erik gets married and Son Cesar IV divorce concludes.

3. Both boys move into a new neighborhood close by.

For the first time in a long time Cesar and his wive are empty nesters.

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Cesar becomes a Grandpa again. Michael Thomas Reta is born.

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January- Oldest Grandson, Ethan joins the Marines. Cesar is very proud and supportive of his decision to serve his country the way he did.

February- Son Erik moves back into the house after being served divorce papers. A few days out of the week Grandson Michael comes to spend time. The divorce is more civil than it was for their other son. Cesar gets to do many things with Michael. To his delight, his grandson shows interest in music and loves to hear his Tata play.

September- Norma and Cesar celebrate 55 years married!

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Cesar currently has 10 that he and his wife manage

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Cesar goes to the gym regularly and eats healthy. He’s added the superfruit Guanabana into his diet that helps prevent cancer.

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His family was very poor but everybody worked, even the kids. His first job as a young child was going door to door selling packets of seeds. He saved up his money to build himself a shoe shine box. He shined shoes until a business man asked him if he’d like to sell newspapers for him.

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Cesario learned all sorts of handy skills from his family and on his own. 

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Cesario learned all sorts of handy skills from his family and on his own. 

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He learns how to fix things, carpentry, laying cement, and event how to sew.

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His family at homes calls him “Chai-yo” and Chaito Chiquito which is loosely translated as Little Cesar in Spanish. That name sticks within the family but at school they just call him Cesar.

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He takes after his mother, who played piano. He sings and eventually learns to play guitar.

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Lots and lots of songs from many decades get played at family gatherings.