RIP Catalina Garcia - a Northern Illinois University student from Cicero, Illinois

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Posted on: February 19th, 2008
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“Earlier Monday, mourners also gathered at Our Lady of the Mount Church to pay their last respects to Catalina Garcia, who was remembered as a “daughter of Cicero” by city officials in this heavily Hispanic suburb.

“She chose the hard path to pursue university education,” NIU President John Peters said at the 20-year-old’s funeral. Garcia, the youngest of four children in a family that had immigrated to the United States from Guadalajara, Mexico, was studying to become a teacher.

“She had goals and dreams. She inspired us all and should inspire young people of our community,” Peters said.”*

*From: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com
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