Name: Mary Caudillo
Program: Food Services (EOC Dakota Diner)
Position: Food Production Worker I

First Job: Bayley’s Sewing Factory in Sanger

Birthplace: Reedley , CA

Years at FCEOC: 20

Best advice ever received: My father always told us to work for whatever we wanted, not to depend on anyone or wait for it to be handed to you.

Favorite advice I give: Get a good education, go to college, I didn’t get to go, had to go to work.

Favorite restaurant, dish, or pig-out food: Antonio’s Mexican Restaurant – I wonder why!

Proudest moment: When I had my 2 children and when my daughter Nancy graduated in May of 2006 from Fresno State

Greatest personal accomplishment: Raising my 2 kids by myself

Best vacation I’ve taken/dream vacation: Las Vegas / Going to New York and Florida when I retire

Favorite weekend activity: Reading , spend time with grandkids, going to Casino

Last good movie I saw: The Good Shepard

Scariest experience: When I almost died, from a ruptured appendix in 2000

If I had a million dollars I would… Take care of my 2 kids, grandkids, my brothers and sisters, then my husband and I would travel

Favorite place to shop: Target and Dollar Tree Stores – Wal-Mart

Favorite childhood memory: Our house full of family for Christmas making tamales

Words that describe me best: Happy and always helping others

I like to watch: Romance movies

In my spare time… Shopping and going to the Casino’s

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it is… If you want respect, you give respect, treat others the way you want to be treated