On Wednesday, Irma and Joe Garcia were buried side by side in twin brown caskets. The Robb Elementary school teacher of 23 years was one of 21 killed in the Uvalde shooting. Her husband died of a broken heart, family said, just days after her death.
Hundreds of flowers, notes, cards, stuffed animals and partially lit candles sit in front of Irma and Joe Garcia’s memorial at the Town Square in Uvalde on Tuesday.UVALDE — In the days following the school shooting at Robb Elementary, the streets of this small town were lined by sets of 21.
Hundreds filled the pews at Sacred Heart Catholic Church for a funeral Mass on Wednesday morning during which San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller called the couple’s children up to the altar. The four stood together between their parents’ caskets, draped in white sheets, as the archbishop called on the congregation to help sustain them in faith and in love.
“Seeing them return to their elementary schools wearing their cap and gown … is the reason every teacher in this district does what they do,” Garcia wrote. “That moment makes all the struggles, long hours, and endless paper work so worth it.”He was born in Uvalde; she was born in San Antonio. The couple began their relationship in high school, an obituary said, flourishing into a love that was “beautiful and kind.
First: Emergency vehicles sit outside a service for Irma and Joe Garcia at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde on Wednesday. Last: Pallbearers carry caskets into the service.The couple represented a cross-section of this mostly Hispanic, working-class community. She was an educator, preparing generations worth of children for life. He kept shelves stocked so neighbors could feed their families.
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