Maria Gonzales

Maria Gonzales was the wife of J.B. Balmer and one of the founders of the Santa Fe Headquarters.

Early Years
Maria Gonzales was born in Mexico City, Mexico on January 3, 1910. She was raised in a well-to-do family. Her father was a professor at the newly founded National Autonomous University of Mexico. At the age of 16, her family moved to the United States and settled in Albuquerque. She was homeschooled for most of her high school years, but from the age of 12, she had always wanted to go to an American university.

By 18, she saved up enough and was accepted to the University of New Mexico, where she majored in chemistry. In her third year, she met J.B. Balmer who she fell in love with and married a year later after graduation.

Life With J.B. Balmer
Gonzales and Balmer lived in Albuquerque for several years after graduation. While Balmer pursued a career in politics, Gonzales became a science teacher at the University of New Mexico. In 1939, Balmer was elected senator of New Mexico, and the couple moved to Santa Fe. Nine years later, Balmer became a founder of the Organization of Secret Affairs. As Balmer founded the Santa Fe Headquarters, he enlisted Gonzales to help with the training and management of the laboratories there. In her thirty years there, she helped find countless of young agents across the country and progressed the inventions built and used throughout the organization.

Retirement and Later Years
Gonzales retired at the age of 70 in 1980. They moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado. Every few years, Gonzales would make trips down to the Santa Fe Headquarters to survey the management of the labs and facilities. In 2002, Balmer passed away at their home in Colorado Springs. A funeral service was held in Santa Fe. While there, Gonzales visited the labs at the Santa Fe Headquarters, where she briefly met a potential agent named Dennis Green. Green showed her his scientific formulas for renewable energy. Gonzales found great potential in Green and endorsed him as an agent.

Gonzales lived as a widow in Santa Fe until she passed away on October 29, 2006.

Legacy
On October 29, 2007, the laboratories at the Santa Fe Headquarters was officially named the Maria Gonzales Memorial Laboratories in memory of her passing.

Relationships

 * Dennis Green - Green befriended Gonzales while training at the Santa Fe Headquarters in 2002. Gonzales became his mentor during his training.
 * J.B. Balmer - Husband of Maria Gonzales. They also worked together running the Santa Fe Headquarters.