San Joaquin County Biographies


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MRS. CLORINDA BAVA.
 
        The city of Stockton may well be proud in having, as one of her most 
progressive citizens, Mrs. Clorinda Bava, a native daughter of exceptional 
character and worth, who was reared here in the home of her parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. Benedetto Ratto, whose life-story is given elsewhere in this history, and 
who are justly regarded as among the sturdy pioneer builders of the great Golden 
State commonwealth. She attended the Franklin School in her girlhood, and on 
April 6, 1904, at Stockton, she was married to Santino Bava, a native of Italy, 
who had come to Stockton in 1892, and has since always followed agricultural 
pursuits, fortunate in his sterling qualities, which have easily given him a 
reputation for honesty and uprightness in his dealings with his fellowmen. Two 
children blessed the union: Benjamin, who was born in February, 1905, is 
well-advanced as a student, prominent in high school football, and in 1922 he 
played with the Varsity "Tarzans;" and Evelyn, born in March, 1908, is a pupil 
at the Lafayette School. Perhaps because of this active participation in school 
work by her own children, whose studies she seeks to direct, Mrs. Bava maintains 
a keen interest in the welfare of other children, and is always a strong 
advocate of better schools. The family belong to the Roman Catholic Church.
        In addition to discharging her home duties, Mrs. Bava, who made easier 
the declining days of her beloved father, has assisted in looking after the 
Ratto estate, and her home is now in the residence where the family were reared, 
from which she radiates the most helpful influence, dispensing an appreciated 
charity, making bright the lives of those more or less clouded, and seeking 
really to help those who, for one reason or another, cannot always help 
themselves. All honor, then, to such a noble woman who, having reached success, 
has never forgotten that there are still others below on the mountain paths 
trying just as hard as she did to rise and succeed.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p    1324      
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.