It can take a village to send Hispanics to final home – The Boston Globe
Tagged: Boston, children, family, MassachusettsPosted on: August 20th, 2007“It is a Friday evening in mid-July, and Jerry Rodgers is driving Francisca Lopez to Logan International Airport.
Rodgers never met Lopez while she was alive, but he will be the one to bid her a final farewell before she leaves the United States forever. The 97-year-old grandmother of at least 22 grandchildren — the family says there are so many they have lost track — died earlier in the week at a nursing home in Jamaica Plain.
Rodgers, the owner of Mann & Rodgers Funeral Home in Jamaica Plain, is taking Lopez’s remains, which are in a rose-colored casket in the back of his black Cadillac hearse, to the American Airlines cargo terminal.”
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