Tag: Bearing Witness
BEARING WITNESS: Illustration closes series by paying tribute to COVID-19 victims
BY FRANCISCO GUAJARDO
José Alaniz created the final Bearing Witness column, featuring portraits of four people we’ve lost during the pandemic of 2020-21.
A close friend...
Museum reflects on impact of series honoring Valley lives lost to COVID
There have been 2,629 deaths related to COVID-19 in Hidalgo County since the pandemic struck the region nearly a year ago. But with near-daily...
BEARING WITNESS: Cartoonist sketches comic strip for uncle who died due to COVID-19
Editor's note: This comic strip by author and cartoonist José Alaniz, Ph.D. — a 1986 graduate of Edinburg High School now residing in Seattle, and who...
BEARING WITNESS: Father’s death is family’s fifth loss to COVID-19
Jessica Prieto’s father, Perfecto Salas, was her fifth family member to die of COVID-19, when he simply couldn’t fight it anymore, and succumbed to...
BEARING WITNESS: A family gatherer, Alicia Ortiz’s death leaves family with void
BY FRANCISCO GUAJARDO
The day Alicia Ortiz died on July 16, 2020, all of a sudden the Dallas Cowboys didn’t seem to matter quite so...
BEARING WITNESS: Victims of COVID-19, Treviños leave behind grieving family and church
BY FRANCISCO GUAJARDO
Graciela and Tomás Treviño were the epitome of a love story.
Cynthia Martínez, the first of Graciela and Tomás’ children and the person...
BEARING WITNESS: Family: Laughs, love filled couple’s final moments before dad died
BY FRANCISCO GUAJARDO
Enrique “Henry” Maldonado was born in Edinburg, raised in San Carlos, and sometime in 1969 met Margaret Gonzalez at a dance in...
BEARING WITNESS: Family already-reeling from grandfather’s death loses mother to COVID
BY FRANCISCO GUAJARDO
Rio Grande City native Heidi Saenz died on Aug. 3, 2020, unexpectedly taken by COVID-19. She took her last breath at the...
BEARING WITNESS: Granddaughter of musician who died from COVID-19 cautions public
BY FRANCISCO GUAJARDO
Eighteen-year-old Hope Guerrero from Weslaco wanted to tell her grandfather’s story, so she emailed the Museum of South Texas History.
“My grandfather died...
BEARING WITNESS: Friend honors memory of farmworker, musician, jack of all trades
Editor’s note: After John Garza of McAllen read several Bearing Witness articles in The Monitor, he decided to write about his dear friend Pedro...
