Ten years after getting married, Maribel Macedo and Armando Gomez Sanchez have been lastly celebrating their honeymoon.
Their daughter, Isela Macedo, says “They were basically on their first vacation.”
Outside the dry cleansing store named after her, Isela, recollects how the Chicago couple celebrated Christmas with household in Texas then slipped away to Florida for fireworks at Disneyworld.
“They got the last two tickets available for the fireworks show. Throughout the whole show, I was on the phone on Saturday around 5, 6 in florida. They were showing me the castle , all the people, the light up ears, all the music. They were having the time of their lives. They were saying to us ‘it’s a dream to be here, to experience such magical land.’ I was so happy they got that experience.”
“It was such a big moment for them.”
As they left the present on a foggy i-75 in Columbia county, florida, Mari and Mando, as they have been affectionately known as, have been killed in a 21 automobile pileup.
Isela known as from Chicago as the new yr got here to 2023. No reply.
She known as Florida State Police.
“They confirmed her license plates have been concerned in the accident, and I began calling all of the trauma one facilities in florida and unable to search out them.
On January third , that’s once I bought the news that each of my dad and mom had handed in that accident “
Tonight their widespread edgewater dry cleaner on west devon- as soon as named Chicago’s Best- is darkish tonight.
An indication on the door with a grim message for purchasers… of Mari’s passing, and directions to choose up their belongings.
“They’ve been like a pillar of this group. I’m nonetheless in disbelief. I do know I’ll by no means hear their voices or their laughter or get that hug from them. But I’m overwhelmed with pleasure with help group has given us.
On Saturday purchasers are welcomed to assist them pay respects from 7-9pm at Green Burial of Love on 6250 North Milwaukee avenue in Chicago. Family can also be holding a web based fundraiser for funeral and transport bills. https://www.gofundme.com/f/maribel-macedo-dominguez-armando-sanchez-gomez?fbclid=IwAR3dgA09sYVkDfYia7t_iA83mKuHt_KK5OZPmGXbVgaW29t5w06bPDC3ua4
“I feel if one in every of them had handed and the opposite one hadn’t , I don’t understand how they’d have recuperated from that as a result of they have been every others’ world.