USA "A Mass for Arturo, Chicago" Jay Dunn 43 images Created 21 Apr 2009
On April 21st, 2009, a moving funeral for community leader and philanthropist Arturo Velasquez was held at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel in Chicago. Born in 1915, Mr. Velasquez entered the US from Mexico at age 8, parlaying good business sense and a generous heart into multi-million dollar family enterprises. His services were front-page news in many papers, with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley in attendance.
The man everyone called "Art" wished to be remembered with Violet Parra's poem "Gracias a la Vida."
"Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto, me dio dos luceros que cuando los abro, perfecto distingo lo negro del blanco, y en el alto cielo su fondo estrellado, y en las multitudas el hombre que yo amo"
"Thanks to life which has given me so much, it gave me two eyes that when I open them I can distinguish perfectly black from white, and in the high heaven its starry background, and in the multitudes the man I love." Photographs created for a front page story in the Chicago Tribune's HOY Spanish-language newspaper.
The man everyone called "Art" wished to be remembered with Violet Parra's poem "Gracias a la Vida."
"Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto, me dio dos luceros que cuando los abro, perfecto distingo lo negro del blanco, y en el alto cielo su fondo estrellado, y en las multitudas el hombre que yo amo"
"Thanks to life which has given me so much, it gave me two eyes that when I open them I can distinguish perfectly black from white, and in the high heaven its starry background, and in the multitudes the man I love." Photographs created for a front page story in the Chicago Tribune's HOY Spanish-language newspaper.
