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Tereza Tesvich and her Croatian Needlework
Teresa Tesvich was born in 1931 in Sucuraj, on Croatia's Dalmation Coast. The youngest of six girls, she married Ante Tesvich, a Croatian-born oyster fisherman, when she was twenty-three. Not long afterwards, she followed him to his fishing camp in southeast Louisiana, where he lived and worked. They raised their family in Plaquemines Parish, where Mrs. Tesvich (now widowed) lives not too far from her daughter and sons. Like most Croatian American families, they still get together on Sundays for dinner.
Mrs. Tesvich carries on many of the Croatian traditions she learned as a girl, and has passed some of them on to her own children. She is a master of fine needlework, a fine traditional cook and baker, and a skilled gardener. She is also active in her Catholic Church, where she helps with the annual St. Anthony's Day celebration.
South Louisiana
Photo: Maida Owens
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