From the empty swing set outside Robb Elementary School — where last week 19 children and two teachers were killed in the deadliest school shooting in Texas history — is a clear view of the Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home.
The two buildings, their purposes once obverse, are now irreversibly linked, as this is where Uvalde starts to say goodbye.
Hillcrest, one of only two funeral homes in the small, predominantly Latino community of just 16,000 people, held the first in a long series of services Monday: visiting hours for 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza.
