Toledo activist helps generations of immigrants – Ruth Garcia
Tagged: activist, Mexico, Ohio, Toledo
For more than a half-century, she was known as the madrina – the godmother.
Ruth Garcia, now 87, fulfilled the custom by overseeing the baptisms of hundreds of newborns at the former Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission Church. But she also became the godmother of hundreds more: immigrants who came from Texas and Mexico in the 1940s, speaking little English and knowing little about the city.
“I felt it was my duty to help them,” Mrs. Garcia said.”*
*From: toledoblade.com
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