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Description
Five young pallbearers, all wearing white dresses and three with veils, stand behind a child's coffin topped with flowers for a funeral for infant Gomez (first name unknown) buried at Calvary Cemetery. Rear row, from left: Hortencia Mercado, sisters Evangelina and Consuelo Rivera, and Margaret Mercado; the child in front is unidentified.
Burial--California--East Los Angeles Cemeteries--California--East Los Angeles Coffins--California--East Los Angeles Funeral rites and ceremonies--California--East Los Angeles Hispanic Americans--California--East Los Angeles Mercado, Hortencia Mercado, Margaret Pallbearers--California--East Los Angeles Rivera, Consuelo Rivera, Evangelina Cementerios--California--Este de Los Angeles Enterramientos--California--Este de Los Angeles Feretros--California--Este de Los Angeles Hispanonorteamericanos--California--Este de Los Angeles Ritos y ceremonias funebres--California--Este de Los Angeles
Place
Calvary Cemetery 4201 Whittier Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90023 Los Angeles (Los Angeles county, California : inhabited place) Los Angeles (California, United States : county) California (United States, North and Central America : state) United States (North and Central America, World : nation) 34.025244228097876
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