To Del Mar with Love, Chiquita is a memoir of the fascinating life of an outstanding public citizen and the Southern California town she helped to grow. This book tells some of her favorite stories of her life, from her childhood in Monrovia, California in the 1930s, the daughter of a widowed mother with a third-grade education and no job experience, through her move to Del Mar with her husband and two young sons in the 1950s, and her development of a real estate business, successful in every way.