Pedro "Pete" Obregon
13 March 1898 - 3 May 1991
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
bornTempe, Arizona, USA
SchoolTempe District No.3
BiographyFarmerMill worker (Hayden Flour Mill - equipment operator and other jobs)
Born in Tempe in 1898. Parents were Serapio Obregon and Ramona (Quiquis) Obregon
Pete Obrgon one of ten children of Serapio and Ramona:
Felipe, Seveto, Serapio, Maria, Alphonso, Hilberto, Pedro, Ramon, Santiago, and Juanito
Location of home:
- 540 E. Dewey St. - ca.1898 to 1958 - House is near east end of Dewey Street, and between Canal Street and Third Alley. Property site straddles the boundary of San Pablo and Mickey Mouse barrios. (San Pablo also known as Barrio el Centro or East Tempe.)
- 2027 E. Transmission Rd. (later University Drive) - 1958 to 1980s - farm near modern intersection of University Dr. and Smith Rd. (approximately half a mile west of Victory Acres neighborhood)
Pedro “Pete” Obregon was a kind and generous man of Tempe who did a great deal to give back to his community over the course of his lifetime. Born to a pioneer family in Tempe in 1898, Pete Obregon was one of ten children. His Yaqui father, Serapio Obregon, made his way up to Tempe from Sonora, Mexico and purchased land in the San Pablo neighborhood in 1887. In 1902, he purchased a large lot at the east edge of San Pablo on Dewey Street where Pete Obregon would live for most of his life. As they grew up in Tempe, Pete Obregon and his sister and brothers did well in school and learned the skills and values of their pioneer parents. Pete Obregon became a farmer, but he also worked for many years at the Hayden Flour Mill. In 1958, Pete and his wife, Fedelia, sold the family homestead at 540 E. Dewey Street in the playfully named Mickey Mouse barrio as Arizona State University expanded in the late 1950s. Pete, Fidelia and their family headed east to buy a farm along old Transmission Road, at the southeast corner of what we know today as University Drive and Smith Road. Known in the community as “Don Pedro,” Pete Obregon is lovingly remembered by his family today for his guidance, hard work, generosity and a spirit for serving his family, friends and community.
Information sources include:
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Biographical and Family History information provided by:
Alisa O. Fierro and Dominick and Yoli Flores
(Alisa and Dominick are grandchildren of Pete Obregon)
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