Daily News | How did a famous Mexican poet end up buried and forgotten in the Philadelphia suburbs?
He came to Philadelphia in 1947 to serve as the Mexican Consul before dying of cirrhosis due to alcoholism five years later, when he was 48. His family was unable to arrange for his body to return to Sinaloa, so he was interred at Holy Cross in 1952. Though his family members always knew where Owen Estrada was buried, the site had fallen into neglect and disrepair.Poet Carlos José Pérez Sámano moved to Philly in 2016, some 69 years after Owen Estrada.
Aware that Owen Estrada was buried in Philadelphia, Pérez Sámano struggled to locate the unmarked grave. Eventually he tried, a crowd-sourced database of burial locations, which pointed him to Holy Cross in Yeadon.
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