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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 2010
Page
5
The article traces Dia de los Muertos origins to Aztec and Meso-American rites practiced for millennia before Spanish conquest. It notes skull imagery, calacas masks, and sugar skull altars as symbols of death and rebirth, emphasizing a view of death as continuation of life rather than end.
Maria Guadalupe Sigala born September 18 1953 in El Paso Texas died October 21 2010 in Los Angeles at age 57. Survived by sons Mark Gutierrez Jordan Gutierrez mother Octaviano Sigala sisters Rosemary Hernandez Emily Dominguez Belen Garcia Lori Garcia and others. Recitation of the Holy Rosary held October 26 2010 at St Therese s Catholic Church Shafter with Mass following. Funeral arrangements at Golden Valley MemorialCare and Peters Funeral Home Wasco California.
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