 Romero's mother, Victoria Theresa Mucha Holley, the eighth of nine children who survived childhood, was born on 4 October 1916 to Józef Mucha and Agnieszka Szymezyk Mucha in Lorain, Ohio.Józef, a native of Russ, Poland, was born on 21 May 1883.He immigrated to the United States in 1896 where he found work as a shipyard worker in Lorain.