Two San Diego pastors are lost to the coronavirus, and the grief extends across the border
Print When Taurino and Silvia Rivera were laid to rest beneath a California pepper tree on Friday morning, their white caskets were surrounded by their three sons and daughters-in-law and seven grandchildren, members of the church they founded in San Diego and pastors who had grown close to them during their years of ministry. The couple, who had grown up together in a small town in Oaxaca and had been inseparable since, were buried together after dying weeks apart from COVID-19. Taurino’s casket was lowered first, and then his wife’s on top of his. Missing from the scene was their fourth...