Their fourth son Frederick was born to Teodulfo and Stella in December of 1931. The stock market crash of 1929 had plunged the world into a Great Depression, and the minorities of San Antonio struggled more desperately than ever. Teodulfo"s earnings at the Sibley home became a lifeline for the family, and he was forced to dig down ever deeper to help the Perez family next door as times got tougher.
Yet the family grew even more tightly knit as they drew together to make ends meet. Ed Welk stretched his military pension to the breaking point, buying sacks of rice, beans and flour for tortillas so that Charlotte always had food for relatives who came by. The Munoz brothers did likewise, continuing to cut corners on the street for whatever extra they could get. The Filipino-American Society
