By SARAH SHMERLING | Editor-in-Chief
Pacific Palisades Historical Society will host its annual meeting on Monday, May 6, beginning at 7 p.m., which will feature a presentation titled “Honoring the Marquez Family Legacy.”
Community members are invited to attend the meeting, which is free, but RSVPs are requested at pacificpalisadeshistoric.org/contact-us or by email to pacpalhistoricalsociety@gmail.com.
The presentation will be given by historian Randy Young, who serves as the PPHS curator. It will focus on Ernest Marquez—the “treasured historian” who died in January at the age of 99—Angie Marquez Olivera and Rosemary Miano.
“I recorded video interviews with these three members of the Marquez family in the 1990s,” Young said in a statement shared by PPHS, “and I am editing their memories into a presentation, along with vintage photographs from our archives.”
Sharon Kilbride—Miano’s daughter, who campaigned the Marquez Family Cemetary in Santa Monica Canyon—is also slated to speak.
“Angie Olivera (1916-2002) and Rosemary Miano (1922-2013) were great-great granddaughters of Francisco Marquez, who was a co-recipient (with Ysidro Reyes) of the original 1839 Rancho Boca de Santa Monica Mexican land grant,” according to information sent by PPHS. “Ernest Marquez, also a lineal descendant of Francisco Marquez and Ysidro Reyes, was a self-taught historian who wrote five books, including an illustrated history of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica.”
During the meeting, PPHS members will also be asked to approve the slate of officers for 2024-25.
The historical society is focused on “preserving the heritage and culture” of the community, as well as “stories of its founding families.” The society is accepting new members, and donations, at its website.
The May 6 meeting will take place at Pierson Playhouse, located at 941 Temescal Canyon Road.
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