Celia Cruz, celebrated as a lover of life, passes From: New York Amsterdam News | Date: July 30, 2003| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Carrillo, Karen Juanita
New York Amsterdam News
07-30-2003
Two white horses pulled a glass-enclosed carriage with Celia Cruz's coffin
away from the thousands of fans in El Barrio who'd lined up for days to say
good-bye to her.

On July 22, the horses transported Cruz, who died July 16 of complications
from a brain tumor, from the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home on 81st Street
down to St. Patrick's Cathedral for a funeral mass. The funeral procession
had a sad, carnivalesque feel to it, and as a torrential rain shower
erupted over the fans who tried to trail the procession, talk of the
heavens' ...

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