A park west of downtown Tucson is named 'Menlo Park, Dedicated to Edward Moreno.' He was a World War II paratrooper, city worker and supporter of Little Leaguers.
David Leighton For the Arizona Daily Star Since a Tucson City Council action in 1982, a city park west of downtown has been named"Menlo Park, Dedicated to Edward Moreno."He was born to Francisco, a miner, and Ignacia Moreno in 1919 in the small mining town of Rosemont, in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson.
People are also reading… At one point he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, a work relief program established by Congress to create work during the Great Depression. The two projects he was known to have worked on were constructing roads connected with Madera Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountains and on Mount Lemmon.Moreno joined the U.S. Army after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, formally enlisting in January 1942 at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas.
Within a decade they would have children Sylvia, Edward Jr., Frank, and Virginia, and would be residing at 1346 W. Franklin St., in the Menlo Park neighborhood. He continued, “During the 1960s and 1970s, he also headed the rose garden project at Reid Park. He would lead the meetings with several citizens attending and they would discuss planting, fertilizing and pruning methods. One of the participants during these early years was Tucson's grand dame of fashion, the late Cele Peterson," who is now the namesake of the Cele Peterson Rose Garden.
He was commonly seen, in the early mornings before going to work, on this field, known as Billy Bradley Memorial Field , making sure it remained in top shape for the local players.
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