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They gathered at a park and lit candles and shone cellphone lights in El Paso's direction as a sign of solidarity. [93] Antonio Basco declared his wife's funeral on August 16 to be open to anyone who wished to attend. [94] Hundreds of people from El Paso and other parts of the country attended, and flowers were sent from around the world. [94] [95]
Over 60,000. Concordia Cemetery is a burial ground in El Paso, Texas. It is known for the being the burial place of several gunslingers and old west lawmen. The first burial took place in 1856. There are between 60,000 and 65,000 graves in the cemetery. Concordia is the only place to have a Chinese cemetery in Texas.
The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight was a famous gun fight that occurred on April 14, 1881, on El Paso Street, in El Paso, Texas. Witnesses generally agreed that the incident lasted no more than five seconds after the first gunshot, though a few would insist it was at least ten seconds. Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire accounted for three of the ...
Vasquez was shaken by Cordero's death. Kathy Vasquez pays her respects to retired FBI Special Agent Julio CeĢsar Cordero outside of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Sept. 13, 2024 in El Paso. "I saw ...
Sugar skulls, dancers and costumes help celebrate Dia de los Muertos 2023 with a parade and festival in Downtown El Paso.
Fort Bliss National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in West Texas, located at Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army post adjacent to the city of El Paso. Administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 82.1 acres (33.2 ha), and as of 2014, had over 50,000 interments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...
Andrade, Mary J. Day of the Dead A Passion for Life – Día de los Muertos Pasión por la Vida. La Oferta Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9791624-04; Anguiano, Mariana, et al. Las tradiciones de Día de Muertos en México. Mexico City 1987. Brandes, Stanley (1997). "Sugar, Colonialism, and Death: On the Origins of Mexico's Day of the Dead".
Northeast 54 and Dyer. Northeast El Paso is part of the city of El Paso, Texas and is located north of Central El Paso, and east of the Franklin Mountains.Its southern boundary is variously given as Fred Wilson Boulevard or Cassidy Road and Van Buren Avenue, and it extends northward to the New Mexico state line; some portions of this region lie outside the city limits, including parts of ...