Comments on: Memorial services set for LD 27 State Senator Jorge Luis Garcia http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2010/10/18/memorial-services-set-for-ld-27-state-senator-jorge-luis-garcia/ Our sense of group togetherness and "community" in Tucson Wed, 15 May 2013 02:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carolyn Classen http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2010/10/18/memorial-services-set-for-ld-27-state-senator-jorge-luis-garcia/comment-page-1/#comment-23778 Carolyn Classen Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:59:36 +0000 http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/?p=1524#comment-23778 Sad farewell today for Jorge at St. Peter & Paul’s (mariachi mass), attended by hundreds of people who knew him: Congressman Raul Grijalva, State Senate colleagues: Ken Bennett, John Huppenthal, Paula Aboud, Tim Bee,Toni Hellon, Manuel Alvarez, Victor Soltero, and House colleagues: David Lujan, Olivia Cajero Bedford,  Phil Lopes, David Bradley, Chris Deschene, Nancy Young Wright, Tom Prezelski, Pete Hershberger, Gary Pierce, along with local politicians F. Ann Rodriguez, Rchard Elias, Richard Fimbres, Adelita Grijalva, Eva Dong Carillo, and current/former candidates: Manuel Cruz, Vince Rabago, Todd Camenisch, Andrea Dalessandro, Bruce Wheeler, Macario Saldate, Kent Solberg, Mohur Sidhwa, Sami Hamed, Claudia Ellquist.  Particularly moving was hearing of Jorge’s dedicated life to social work, and the beautiful singing of “Ave Maria”.
Farewell Jorge, you will be missed here in So. AZ.

P.S. I now have been informed that Governor Jan Brewer was there up in the front as well.

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