By Peggy Kelly Santa Paula Times.

Anthony “Toots” Jauregui was a legendary rancher and quiet member of the Santa Paula community whose family has ranched in the area for generations. Toots, a 1927 graduate of Santa Paula High School and described in the yearbook, El Solano, as “Men of quality are above wit.”

The family ranch in Wheeler Canyon also produced apricots and walnuts and was where Toots was born April 2, 1910, the 12th of 16 children born to Francisco and Isabel Glaize Jauregui.