Margaret and Seba Bronson

Margaret and Seba Bronson were married in 1941 and spent their entire married lives in Castroville until their deaths in 1985 and 1986. Seba Bronson was born in 1906 and raised on a ranch in Watsonville and came to Castroville in 1926 to help his widowed sister run her hardware store. He later owned the store, then retired and closed the store in 1971. He was very active in Rotary and Masons. Except for World War II, he spent his life in Watsonville and Castroville. Margaret Jensen was born in 1913 in Medford, Oregon and graduated from St. Vincent’s School of Nursing in Portland, Oregon in 1934. She then moved to the Salinas area to be near her sister and family and practice nursing. When Seba went off to war, she began helping in the hardware store. She was a member of our Lady of Refuge Church. The Bronsons had no children and therefore left an endowment for college scholarships for North Monterey County High School students to benefit the students of the community in which they lived and worked.

(Margaret) Sebina Hobson is the niece and namesake of the Bronsons. She lives nearby in Los Altos and considers it her privilege to work with Community Foundation for Monterey County and North Monterey High School in helping to award four year scholarships to needy and deserving students.