UVALDE, Texas—Mourners gathered Wednesday at a Catholic church to say goodbye to Robb Elementary School teacher Irma Garcia—who died in the shooting at the Uvalde, Texas, grade school—and her husband, Joe—who died two days later from a heart attack.
Nineteen children and two teachers—Garcia and her co-teacher, 44-year-old Eva Mireles—were killed May 24 when an 18-year-old gunman burst into their classroom. The litany of visitations, funerals, and burials began Monday and will continue into mid-June.
At Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Wednesday, twin black hearses carrying the coffins of the Garcias arrived in a procession led by police and civilian motorcycle riders. Covered by flowers, the two closed caskets were borne by pallbearers past a phalanx of police in uniforms and priests in white robes….
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