In Memory

Carmen Ward

She was a base hospital secretary in 1954 then became the Wm.T. Sampson school Spanish teacher from the 1955 thru 1959 school years. Her husband was a US Marine stationed in GTMO 1941-1943 and later a civilian employee from 1951-1959 on the base.

During her time there she taught 2 of the three boys who left the base to fight for Castro in 1957. The family car was crayoned one Halloween, too. In April of 1959 though the base gates were closed, somehow she went to Santiago alone (and apparently one month pregnant unbeknownst to the family) to attend Raul Castro's wedding (in that time the Castros were seen heroically.)







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