San Diego hospital was short-lived
TOPICS: Armando Duran San Diego Hospital POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM FEBRUARY 5, 2018 A post on our Facebook Page about a new hospital in San Diego generated a great deal of interest, Dr. Armando Duran which encouraged me to do a little more digging about the hospital. Interestingly, much of the information about the San Diego hospital came from the Benavides Facts . It is unclear when Dr. Armando Duran came to San Diego, but it was most likely no earlier than 1930, as he is in San Antonio in the 1930 Census, living with his wife Emma and two sons, Armando, 1, and Sergio, a newborn. He was born in Mexico in “about” 1897 or 1898 and came to the United States in 1929, arriving at the port of Laredo. The earliest mention found of Dr. Duran in San Diego was in October 1933 in the Texas State Journal of Medicine , where he is listed as an “Infection of the foot” doctor. During upcoming years he got very involved in the community, serving on the board of the Brooks-Jim Wells-Duval