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Texeira attended high school in Boston. Although her academic advisor had put her in the "domestic arts" curriculum path (one that would eventually prepare her for housekeeping work), her mother's opposition and insistence that she would attend college led Gertrude to be moved to a college preparatory track. After graduation, she attended
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Antonio Dias and Carrie Teixeira. Her father was originally from Cape Verde, but came to the United States in 1902, where he ran a food manufacturing company in addition to working as a chef and owning a restaurant. He and his wife had four children, of whom Gertrude was the oldest.
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