Let me tell you a little about myself.  I was born Roberta Ellen Chavira. My parent’s names were Ramon G. Chavira and Pilar Z. Chavira.  They both past away, and I loved them dearly.  I was born August 2, 1953, in Barstow, CA.  I have five brothers and five sisters.  Three of my brothers passed away, and I loved them dearly. 

I graduated in 1971 from Barstow High School “Riffians 71” rules yeah….

 

I married the best man in the world, Gregory Jay Walker in 1976.  Sorry ladies, he was the last good one left.  We had 2 beautiful daughters,  Reanna Maria & Jenny Ellen.  Reanna was born on April 1, 1979; she gave me a beautiful grandson, Aiden.  Jenny was born on April 9, 1980. (That’s right just 1yr 8days apart), she gave me a grandson Gredan and a granddaughter Leah.  It was a little difficult at first, but worked out to be the best thing.  They became best friends and went to school together.  Jenny even graduated early so she could walk with her sister.  They’re completely different, yet they finish each others sentences.  Family means everything to my husband and me.  “Hurt me but don’t hurt my children.”

 

We moved to Hinkley in 1976, when we got married.  My husband had lived there with his parents for over twenty-eight years.  It’s a quite community where people mind there own business, yet they take care of each other.  We had a small 1600 square foot home on 5 acres.  We need the land because I had a horses.  It was hard for me to get used to living there, as I have always lived where neighbors were always around me.  Now to have neighbors so far away and town being twelve miles away was, at first, difficult for me.  However, I got used to it and loved it.

 

My story started in the late 1980’s when PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) started providing us and our neighbors with bottled water.  They said we had “something in our water” that was OK to drink but to be on the safe side here is bottled water.  Well, I thought it was really great to get “BOTTLED WATER” who wouldn’t like that.  So for years we had free bottled water. 

 

Then one day in 1992 a real-estate man came to my house on behalf of PG&E wanting to buy my house. That was the knock that changed my world.          Roberta Walker   11-13-07