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José Manuel Fajardo Y Montaño 1933 - 1980

José Manuel Fajardo Y Montaño was born on April 13, 1933 in Marianao, Havana County Cuba. He was in a relationship with Gloria García Y Pérez, and had children Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo Y García and Rebecca Maria Fajardo. José Fajardo Y Montaño died at age 47 years old on November 16, 1980.

José Manuel Fajardo Y Montaño

April 13, 1933

Marianao, Havana County, Cuba

November 16, 1980

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Prior to the Cuban Revolution, José Fajardo's was a Cuban soldier and a bodyguard to Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Florida, Naturalization Records, 1847-1995 about Jose Fajardo
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Name:Jose Fajardo SSN:265-68-0580 Last Residence: 33152 Miami, Miami-dade, Florida, USA BORN:17 Apr 1933 Died:Nov 1980 State (Year) SSN issued:Florida (1960)
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Dad joined the US Army by this point [1964], and initially he was stationed in Texas and then South Carolina. But the Vietnam war brought our normal life to an end. Once again, Dad was gone. Communications were very basic back then: Dad couldn't just pick up a cellphone and let us know he was okay. Months would go by without a letter or anything. Eventually he bought two tape recorders -- one he kept with him and one for our house. Dad used to talk into the recorder and send the tapes home. Then we would gather round our machine and tell Dad stories. And I would sing. I still have all the tapes, but I can't listen to them. It hurts too much. After Dad came back from Nam, he wasn't well. He'd been poisoned by Agent Orange and needed quite a lot of looking after. Mum was busy trying to get her Cuban qualifications revalidated by a US university, so I had to take care of Dad and my little sister [Becky]. It was tough. Toward the end, Dad was too far gone and he didn't really know what was hapening around him. I joined Miami Sound Machine in 1975 and we were getting quite successful, but Dad didn't even know who I was. He had to be moved to the hospital. On my wedding day in 1978 [September 2] I went to visit him, still wearing my wedding dress. That was the last time that he said my name. Dad died in 1980, but he touches my life every day. On my last album [Unwrapped] I did a lot of writing while I was looking at a picture of him in his younger days -- so happy and in the prime of his life. I'm not sure if he sees me, but I can feel him all around me. I hope he knows that I am so very proud of him. gloria estefan: The [London] Sunday Times (November 17, 2006) "In the month of March 1963, the U.S. Government offered the officers of Brigade 2506 a special training course at Fort Benning, Georgia. The men of the well known Brigade, many still under the influence of 22 months of Communist prison, others still feeling the wounds of battle, enthusiastically took the opportunity offered by the friendly government [U.S.] to train in the use and techniques of combat and modern weapons, for the purpose of being more ready to the cause of liberating the country. [Cuba]"
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"Jose could not distinguish between Green and Red traffic signals"
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1933

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April 13, 1933

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Marianao, Havana County Cuba

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November 16, 1980

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MAJOR JOSE MANUEL FAJARDO Obituary (Archived) Published in the Miami Herald on Apr. 17, 2011 First 25 of 194 words: MAJOR JOSE MANUEL FAJARDO April 17, 1933 - November 16, 1980 Daddy . . . on April 17th, 1961, the very day of your 28th... Read more here:
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José Manuel Fajardo Y Montaño lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 47.

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