Family of Rodolfo Javier Stusser Beltranena and María Dolores Espinosa Acosta.
Genealogical Summary, Christmas Letter 2001, and Photographs.
Information on Family Structure, Disintegration, Reconciliation, Reunification, and Photographs.
Information on Stusser-Espinosa's Family Structure.
In August 1993, disappeared the Socialism in all the Eastern European Countries and the Soviet Union, and therefore completely collapsed the Cuban economy, the communist party authorized the reestablishment of relations of the Cubans of the island with the Cuban-American families of the exile.
When it seemed that our family and circle of friends were very reduced and confined to our co-workers and neighbors, we discovered that we still had a very great Cuban American family and many good classmates overseas, who have forgiven us, but also pure Americans, Europeans, Asians, and Africans.
The goal of this page is to give information to the web to help the reconciliation and reunification of all our family and friends all over the world.
Rodolfo Stusser (Roddy) & María Dolores Espinosa (Lolita)'s Family
In April 11, 1979, Rodolfo and Lolita were engaged and married by the law in December 3 of 1979. Then, Rodolfo had a daughter Vivian Stusser Graupera of his first marriage, and Lolita had three daughters, two of her first marriage: María Isabel and Patricia Carrasco Espinosa, and one younger daughter of the second marriage: Vera González Espinosa. Rodolfo and Lolita did not had own children, but adopted all of them, respectively as their own daughters.
Rodolfo and Lolita were classmates but not friends yet, always in different grades of the primary and secondary in the private Cima School in Almendares neigbordhood at Marianao municipality, because Lolita was more advanced that Rodolfo. They use to go to the same Metropolitan Theatre every week and see the same US movies that were released here one week after USA; to buy comics and stories on Spanish & English in the same magazine kiosk and to snack in the same cafeteria of the theatre. They use to participate in the same parties of en of the course with functions in the Metropolitan Theatre, where Lolita performed Cleopatra in a theatre group and Rodolfo performed a minor drum in the Rhythmical Band of the school. They made the first Catholic communion prepared in cathechism by the teacher and General Director of the school Mrs. Flora Galdos de Cima, in the Santa Cruz de Jerusalem Church. They use to go to two Havanan social clubs that were beside: Lolita to the Miramar Yacht Club, and Rodolfo to the Havana Swiming Club, afterwards, Cubaneleco Yacht Club, were they use by their side to swim, take sun, and row in boats. Lolita also use to ride motor boats and yachts too, because she was of a higher social class that Rodolfo. They use to by sweets and pastries in the same Silvain confectionery and to go to the Miramar Theatre too. They use to go to the same Tarará Beach Church on Sundays, when Rodolfo went to Aunt Bubby´s house in Tarará Beach, and Lolita to her parents´house in Santa María del Mar Beach, both the best exclusive beaches of East Havana.
Vivian was born on the 8th of June of 1968 at Vedado, Havana. She was graduated as psychologist at Havana University, and went married with a Venezuelan to live in the City of Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela in 1996. In 1998, she was separated from her husband and moved to Caracas City. She has worked in different social projects and now is writing stories. She knows English and is looking for a better country to live.
Vera was born on the 13th of May of 1970 at the Santa María del Mar --the best of East Havana Beach, where Lolita had a house. She studied till the 2nd year of electroenergetic engineering, and let it for gastronomy in Varadero Beach, Matanzas, to marry Patricio Bouza García, who finished engineering in computers. They had a son Jose Javier Bouza Gonzalez, who born on July 17, 1998. They went to live in Hollywood, Fl, on August 24, 2001. Vera is studying English and has begun to work and study to be a teacher in a Day Care. She is looking for a more interesting job for her preparation.
María Isabel was born the 26th of August of 1965 and Patricia was born the 15th of June of 1967, both at Havana. By Vera and friends we know that María Isabel works as Computer Engineer in a mix firm of the Cuban government in Cuba and in Costa Rica, being also a Costa Rican citizen. She is married and has two children, a boy named David Sigler and a girl named Carolina Sigler. Patricia studied for juridical technician. She has worked in Havanatur as computer programmer, and she is married and has two children, a boy named Pedro Alejandro Piñón and a girl named Laura Piñón.
Rodolfo and Lolita were married by the Catholic Church, the 3rd of December of 1999, after the visit of the Pope John Paul Second to Cuba in January 1998, exactly twenty-years after their wedding by the law.
Family Structure of Rodolfo Javier Stusser de Beltranena Mason Mas Franksen Marten Othon Giralt. (Roddy)
My brother Ricardo Carlos Stusser de Beltranena´s family
I have a younger brother, Ricardo Carlos Stusser Beltranena, who was born on November 21, 1947. He studied the primary and high school at the Cima School as us, finishing the high school at the Marianao Pre-University Institute. He distinguished very much by his great avidity of reading and general knowledge, achieving a great level of general culture. He studied History in Havana University, and worked as researcher and professor of Cuban history at the Humanities Faculty of Havana University for a decade. He made a very delicate historical study of the years before the triumph of the revolution, and edited some important books, one about Máximo Gómez within others. Unfortunately, he had to pass to different lower posts due to problems with the teaching of this subject matter in the university that has a strong partisan political view, and now is working in the Marianao Culture House, Havana City, but in a technical post were he is undervalued and bad paid. He is married with Ana María Iglesias who is architect of havana Physical Planning, and both have two daughters: Beatriz Stusser Iglesias, who is physician, and Lourdes Stusser Iglesias, who is beginning to study for journalist.
My father Jan Rudolph Stusser Mason´s family
My father Jan Rudolph Stusser Mason was born in Santiago de Cuba, the 9th of December of 1913. He was son of my grandfather Mr. Rudolph Wilhelm Stusser Franksen born in Bremen, Germany, the 4th of February of 1885, and of my grandmother Mrs. Rosa Margarita Mason Marten born in Guantánamo, Oriente, Cuba, in 1886. He had an older sister, my aunt Mrs. Hermanna Stusser Mason, who everybody called since she was little "Bubby".
My grandfather "Apita", as Mr. Ulises Giberga Stusser his first grandson used to call him, was son of Herr Teodoro Stusser and of Frau Hermanna Franksen, both Germans of Bremen. Apita went from Germany to Java and Hawaii Islands in Oceania, the Pacific, and learnt there the technique of the sugar cane yield and factory. Afterwards, he came to the Atlantic again, to Cuba before the I World War, with a high technical level and began to manage different big sugar mills in Oriente and Camaguey provinces of Cuba. There he met my grandmother "Amita", as Ulises used to call her, and us too. Amita was daughter of the British trader Mr. William Mason Beattie, who was the British Consul in Santiago of Cuba, and of Mrs. Luisa Marten Flamand a Cuban lady of French ancestors.
During the first world war, Apita as German was put in jail in Cuba, and his father-in-law the British counsul had to put him out. During the II world war, Apita working in the Havana commercial department of the U.S. Cuban Electric Company, his German secretary was put in jail because it was discovered that she was a nazi spy. Then, he did not have any trouble. He and Amita used to visit Miami, Fl, as well as my aunt Bubby with Cuco every year, until his death.
My grandfather Apita had some brothers and sisters in Bremen, the Stussers, Hinrichs, etc. Apita died the 13th of August of 1953, apparently of a myocardial infarction.
Aunt Bubby before married worked some years as a bilingual secretary-officer of the American Embassy at Havana, in the first building in front of the Arms Square at Old Havana. She married Dr. Ulises Giberga Touzet, who study in Peddy College in NJ, USA. He was lawyer-notary and Secretary of the Association of Industrial Persons, and manager and one of the five brothers owners of the Savoy Hotel in F and 15, Vedado, Havana, until he closed it in 1944. They were owner of some houses in Vedado and Miramar in Havana City, and in Tarará Beach in East Havana. In the mid-1950s, they acquired part of Charly and Eva Mason Farm "El Marañón" in the road between Santiago de las Vegas and El Rincón, and built there a little house with a very big garden, where they projected to stay when they became elder. My uncle "Cuco", as everybody used to call him, died in 1957 of an automobile accident in Paseo and 17, Vedado. Afterwards, my aunt Bubby went every week to the little farm to maintain the big garden and collect the rich avocados "Catalina" type of about 20 trees they had there. I used to go to the little farm with aunt Bubby and our dogs Poncio and Nikito.
They had first a daughter named Elena, who was born on December 9, in the early 1930s that died very little. Afterwards, they had a son named Ulises Giberga Stusser, "Cuquito", who was born on December 12, 1932. He studied high school in Spanish at Havana and in English at the Peddy College in NJ, USA, and Public Administration in the Brown University, at New Hamphire. All of them were members of the Miramar Yacht Club and Tarará Yacht Club, where I used to go with them as nephew-- although my social club was first the Havana Swimming Club, afterwards Cubaneleco Yatch Club.
My cousin Ulises was Sub-Manager of the Chase Manhattan Bank of Cuba, at Old Havana, and was fired in 1960 by the revolution. He was the one that deleted from the Stüsser surname the German dieresis over the "u" as in USA. He went to live first to New York, USA. Afterwards, he worked as Manager of the Chase Manhattan Bank in Nassau, Bahamas, and later in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. He went to live to Miami, Fl, in 1974. He married the novelist descendant of Irishmen Jane Sughrue and went to work in the International Department central offices of the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, and afterwards in another US bank.
In 1971 he brought to Miami, Fl, his mother, my aunt "Bubby" and our grandmother "Amita", who didn't agree with the revolution desprivatization measures. My grandmother Amita died of a stroke, few years later.
Ulises is retired living in Forest Hills, Queens, NY with his wife Jane a writer, and daughter Susana, who has a masters in social work and works in New York. Ulises has another daughter named Elena who is lobbyst in a notary firm in Washington DC, married in October 20, 2001 with Robert Kiel Tompkins. He also has a son who is a musician Peter Giberga Sughrue, who works in Los Angeles, Ca. In the last years, Ulises has been fond actor in NY.
I could reach by letter my cousin Ulises in December 1993, and we talked by phone after 33 years in January 16, 1994. In 2000, I could talked again with aunt Bubby, before she died months from colon cancer.
My father Jan Rudolph gave his most experienced last 36 years and energies to the revolution, and being of the middle class before 1959, lived and died in hungry and misery in April 14, 1995.
Other Stusser relatives appeared through the search in the WWW in 2000. There is a great American Stusser's community in the state of Washington, in Seattle and Olympia, which came from Latvia; another community in Oslo, Norway, and other in Bremen, Germany. From these communities, I have been able to meet virtually the kind young Daniel I. Stusser from Olympia, WA, by his web pages and emails.
Daniel is married with Shannon, who works with him in a marketing consultancy named Ergotec Group. They have a daughter named Anna. Daniel's Stussers predecessors came from the Latvian branch instead that from the German one. Daniel sent me on last Feb an acquaintance of him, Griselda wife of Robert Perretz-Rosales, an Argentinean psychologist from Olympia too, who visited Havana, with a fabulous printer HP as a present of both of them.
Recently, by this page in the web, we have been contacted by Margarita Martin, from Columbia, SC, USA, who is a great granddaughter of Luisa Marten Flamand, and by Helene de Boissy d'Anglas, from Nîmes, France, who is her great grand daughter too but by the Brooks line.
By Margarita and Helen, we have known that my grandmother Amita had a first girl who died at the age of six months; that Amita'sr father William Mason Beattie, was born in Montrose, Scotland, between Dundee and Aberdeen. (By the way, I went to an international clinical meeting in Dundee in 1998, and in 2001-2002 applied for a post in a WHO Medical Project named IMMPACT in the University of Aberdeen University, without knowing this)
Finally, we have known that Luisa Marten Flamand was Cuban, but her family came from Paris, Riom, Romorantin, etc. in France; and that we have all the genealogy of the the family of my grandmother Amita, made by Margarita and Helen, which we will receive soon.
My mother Josefina del Carmen Beltranena Más' family
My mother Josefina del Carmen Beltranena Más was born in Habana the 12th of May of 1920. She was daughter of Carlos Justino Beltranena Othón born in Matanzas City, Cuba, in 1887, and of my grandmother Josefina Más Giralt born in Havana City, Cuba on March 16, 1889. She had a younger sister, my aunt Delia del Carmen Beltranena Más (April 15, 1921), who we called "tía Yeya". Aunt Yeya married my uncle Luis Ibarra Betancourt, and had a daughter Carmen Elena Ibarra Beltranena. Luis was brother of Estilita who died in Puerto Rico, USA, and have a daughter Miriam Blanco Ibarra with her family. My cousin Carmencita married with Severo Hernández Calderón, and had a daughter Denisse who died from meningitis in 1991, and afterwards had a son Hansel, who is our godson. This last family left the country in 1998 and went to Miami, Fl, letting at our care my aunt Yeya.
My grandfather "Ito" as we used to call him, was son of Angel Beltranena, who was born in Matanzas City, Cuba, whose surname came from Guatemala, where there is a big aristocratic family even with a President --Don Pedro de Beltranena--, and of Rosario Othón, descendent of Germans. The family of Angel Beltranena had a big dairy farm in the Valley of Yumurí, Matanzas, which was lost after the Revolution, and that family went exiled to USA.
Ito had nine brothers and sisters. They all died and were: María Luisa that died in USA, Fara who died at Havana (and was mother of Domingo González Beltranena "Pucho" who is accounter in the National Hotel), Mercedes, Miguel, Alberto, Angel, Delfín, who died here and father of Berta that stayed here, and of Dr. Humberto Beltranena, anesthesist that after the revolution in the 1960s went to USA. First, he had to work harvesting tomatoes in the fields of Florida. Afterwards, he put a Clinic in Key West, Fl. He had a young son that was physician and died from a Hodgkin lymphoma. Today, he is living retired in Miami, Fl.
Ito was dedicated to mechanic and turner, and put a big private Garage-Workshop of Automobiles in Morro 64, Old Havana. There in Havana he met my grandmother "Abe", as we used to call her.
Ave was daughter of Don Jaime Más Ross who was born in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain, and of Doña Carmen Giralt Sanz, who was born in Trinidad, Las Villas, Cuba, and descendant of Cataluña, Spain too. Don Jaime Más was regent 44 year of the "Diario de la Marina", and he was very loved he and his family by Don Nicolás Rivero, the owner of this prestigious newspaper before the Revolution. He died after suffered for seven years of angor pectoris. His wife was Carmen Giralt.
Ave had two brothers. They were Ricardo and Cosme Más and both died. They were linotypist mechanics of the prestigious newspapers "El País" and "El Mundo". Ricardo Más was married with Ernestina Rivero, and had a daughter that died at her 15 years. Cosme Más the older brother was married with Marcela Lafforge, a French woman, and had a son named Cosme Más (Cosmito), who died from bone cancer. Cosmito had a medium sister Elena Más (La China) who married a evangelist priest, and went to USA too. Cosmito was married and has a daughter Roxana who lives in the Vedado with her mother.
Afterwards, will come more Information on Disintegration, Reconciliation, Reunification, Lolita's Family Structure, and Photographs.
Christmas Letter 2001
Lolita and I invite you to read our first Christmas letter of our family: "Christmas Letter 2001".
Photographs
Note: More photos can be seen at the bottom of the People to People Ambassadors Program's page.
Lolita's Biosketch
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