Oct
23
As dozens of mourners filed into the Lake Worth High School auditorium Thursday night, Banny Galicia’s white casket was positioned in front of the stage.
The sound of music and prayers filled the auditorium as mourners gathered to say goodbye to Galicia, who died Oct. 13 when a single-engine airplane crashed into her family’s suburban Lake Worth mobile home.
More than 100 people attended a memorial at Lake Worth High, where Galicia, 21, previously attended high school. Many of the mourners were dressed in black during a somber service that lasted more than an hour.
A medium-sized photo of Galicia sat atop the casket as prayers were spoken in Spanish.
For many, it was a final opportunity to say goodbye before Galicia is returned to her family’s native Guatamela. Prior to the service, the hearse carrying her body stopped at the trailer home for a short prayer among family. Later the family, including Galicia’s father, Domingo, and her mother, Marta, walked behind the casket as it was brought into the auditorium.
Richard Graulich
Galicia will be buried in her family’s ancestral town of La Democracia, a town of about 40,000 people in the district of Huehetenango.
She will be buried in a family plot, next to a brother who died in a car crash there 15 years ago, in a cemetery up on a hill that can be seen from the family’s home.
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