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August 7, 2019
Family remembers fallen Marine at funeral BY CECILIA CHAN
West Valley View Staff Writer
A TV screen flashed a picture of a baby smiling into a camera, followed by nearly 20 minutes of footage highlighting Maximo A. Flores’ 27 years on earth — his high school graduation, boot camp, his wedding in his dress blues. Nearby, the U.S. Marine Corps staff sergeant’s flag-draped casket sat center stage at the SouthWest Funeral Home chapel as family and friends gathered to say final goodbyes August 3. “He was a wonderful son,” said Flores’ mother, Rosa Bennett. “He dedicated his life (by) going to the Marines.” Flores, a Litchfield Park native, and four fellow Marines went missing and were declared dead December 11, five days after their refueling plane collided with a U.S. fighter jet off of Japan’s coast. Flores was stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Japan. The pilot from the jet also died in the mid-air refueling accident while a crew member survived. A two-week salvage operation from late May to early June recovered Flores’ remains and two other Marines from the tanker.
Rebecca Flores mourns for husband Maximo Flores at SunWest Cemetery in El Mirage on August 3. (West Valley View photo by Pablo Robles)
His father, Maximo Flores, who served six years in the Marines, said he would have stayed in the Corps until he retired and he had plans to go to either drill instructor school or to recruiter school. “He was a very, very humble man, lov-
ing, patient, generous, caring,” he said. “I mean you can’t use no bad words against him, and I don’t say that because he is my son. Everybody else will give you the
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Avondale shooting victim’s family looking for answers BY ERIC NEWMAN
West Valley View Staff Writer
Amid a slew of emotion, Patsy Holloway remembered being woken up early on June 30, when a detective knocked on her door and told her the devastating news. Her son, Jazzmond Holloway, 37, had been killed. Avondale police responded to calls of an accident at 12:31 a.m. that day near the
11100 block of W. McDowell Road, where Jazzmond had been in a single-car crash, according to police. Holloway was found with an apparent gunshot wound, and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Addressing media and police officers alongside other family members on July 30, Patsy said she could not believe it at first, calling the act “senseless.” In the month since Jazzmond’s death,
Patsy said family friends and the local community have offered prayers and support, but she will not stop looking for help until the shooter is identified and prosecuted. She and her family members are now asking for the public’s help in identifying the shooter. “He (Jazzmond) did notMEDICATION deserve this. A
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