Alfonso Miguel Gerardo ALVARADO BRENES

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Note from Denise Alvarado: He was a professor at the University of Iowa and grandma was a student. . He dropped the Brenes surname when he got to the US. The story goes that he came to the United States with $25.00 in his pocket on a banana boat. He ended up being one of the top chemists at Dupont.

Alfonso married Bertha VALORIA COUTURE. (Bertha VALORIA COUTURE was born on 17 Nov 1904 in Topeka, Shawnee Co, KS and died on an unknown date.)