In Memory of Lupita

As we drove in off of the Old Military Road to Santa Maria Park at the old church there to our left was a swimming pool (never noticed before that there was a Little park and a swimming pool there) with the stuffed animals and candles and a sheet with the words "Missing You Lupita" we Love You.
Viola said she remembered that it was in the paper about 8 year old Lupita with D. S. had wondered away while her mother was hanging clothes near by. Some one had left the gate unlocked and they had found her in the pool.

It is quiet here the church is closed and the little park was empty only a county employee stopped to eat a bite in his truck. On the north side are a few homes of the small community and on the south across the Military Road is nothing but farmland and the Mexican Border.

The Church is boarded-up and where the Stained Glass Window are covered, they may not be there any more. There is a Plaque placed left of the door it has on it:
Our Lady of Visitation
Built by
The OBLATE FATHERS 1880
PLACED BY QUINTON STOCKWELL CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN COLONIST
October 28, 1967