Pallbearers and US Marine Christian Garcia, son of Linda Garcia, carry the casket of Irma Linda Garcia and her husband Jose Antonio Garcia during their funeral mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde, Texas, on June 1, 2022. - Irma Garcia, a t UVALDE, Texas (AP) - Mourners gathered Wednesday at a Catholic church to say goodbye to Robb Elementary School teacher Irma Garcia — who died in the shooting at the Uvalde, Texas, grade school — and her husband, Joe — who died two days later from a heart attack.Nineteen children and two teachers — Garcia and her co-teacher, 44-year-old Eva Mireles — were killed May 24 when an 18-year-old gunman burst into their classroom.
The litany of visitations, funerals and burials began Monday and will continue into mid-June.At Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Wednesday, twin black hearses carrying the coffins of the Garcias arrived in a procession led by police and civilian motorcycle riders.
Covered by flowers, the two closed caskets were borne by pallbearers past a phalanx of police in uniforms and priests in white robes.RELATED: Houston Texans donate $400K to Robb School Memorial Fund: 'Texans care about Texans'The president and first lady are in Texas five days after a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers at Robb Elementary School.Some sobbed throughout the service in which Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller offered thanks for Irma Garcia’s dedication.
He listed the names of the slain schoolchildren several times throughout the homily."Because you were there with them," he said. "You did what you would have done with your own children.