Margarita Avila, co-founder of Avila’s El Ranchito restaurants, dies at 93

For the children of Margarita Avila, their mother is best summed up with a photo that serves as the cover for menus at the family’s chain of Avila’s El Ranchito Mexican restaurants.

It was taken about two weeks after the first Avila’s opened in Huntington Park, in 1966. Margarita, then 40, stands…