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Dia de los Muertos


By nc_coleman - Posted on 06 November 2008

I know I am really late asking this - and I am just asking our of curiosity - but did anyone set up an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos, to honor and remember those family members who had passed on.
I wanted to do so , but the death of my dear daughter last month ... well, I just couldn't quite do it. Perhaps I will get back to setting up an ofrenda next year. My son-in-law (non-hispanic) and two young grand-daughters set up a small ofrenda - the little one, 3 -1/2 yrs, wanted to put "everything" on the ofrenda, because "mommy would love it". (It was his first experience - I appreciate that he made the effort to share his wife's heritage with their children.)
However - if you did set up an ofrenda to remember loved ones and antepasados, could you share what you did - or perhaps share a photo.

And perhaps next year I will be able to get back to research.

-natalie
(who researches primarily Castro, Duenas/Duenes, Garcia, who left Hacienda del Astillero [Valparaiso district] in 1916 to go to the US for the duration of the revolution, but never went back.)