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On Tuesday, January 11, 1949, my son Guadalupe, Jr., trans-
lated an article in the Corpus Christi Caller which referred to
a refusal on the part of the Three Rivers funeral home, known as
the Rice Funeral Home, to permit the use of its chapel for my
son's funeral services.
My two sons Guadalupe, Jr., and Alberto, and I immediately
went to Corpus Christi to see Beatrice, my son's widow. She informed
us that through her sister Sarah, she had contacted a veberan's
organization known as the American G.I. Forum, whose presidentwas
Dr. Hector Garcia of Corpus Christi. We--that is, my sons and I--
went to see Dr. Garcia right away and he told us that he was trying
to make arrangements to have the body buried in Corpus Christi.
We told Dr. Garcia that we would approve this plan. We also authorized
told him
Dr. Garcia to make arrangemente as he thought best and/that he would
receive our full backing.
That night my two sons, my son's widow, Beatrice, and I
attended a meeting of the G.I. Forum at which a telegram was read
from Senator Lyndon Johnson in which he offered to make arrangements
to bury my son's body in Arlington Cementery Beatrice and I, who
were sitting side by side, agreed that Senator Johnson's offer should
be accepted. After the meeting my sons and I returned to Three Rivers.
on the following day, January 12, my son Guddalupe and I
went back to Corpus Christi to see. Dr. Garcia. We asked him if he
could help us obtain financial assistance to send more than one
member of the family to Washington to attend the funeral, since some
Three Rivers organizations had volunteered to pay the expenses for
one member of the family. He gave us two letters, one for Mr. R.A.
Cortez of San Antonio, president of the League of United Latin
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