28 December 61 marries Dr. Ricardo A. Pego in Los Angeles. He`s 42; she`s 33. August 64 her pretty daughter, Nina, works as a hostess-waitress at the Pancho Villa Inn in Tarzana, the Valley`s newest Mexican restaurant March 66 is enthusiastic about starring in Lupe Velez`s life story 12 March 66 as Estelita M. Pego, she is found dead on the kitchen floor of her North Hollywood / Van Nuys, California, home, at age 37. The cause of death isn`t made public. Some sources give influenza. Her mentor, Yates, died a month earlier. Her husband Pego survives. is interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California 10 September 67 Pego dies at age 47 in Los Angele