Two memorial services are scheduled to honor and remember long-time Latino activist Nativo Lopez, who died last week at the age of 68.
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The first will be held at the Heritage Museum of Orange County, 3101 W. Harvard St., in Santa Ana from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on June 8. The second will be at the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens, 570 West Avenue 26 in Los Angeles, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 9.
Lopez headed the Santa Ana-based office of Hermandad Mexicana, a non-profit that focused on empowering the Latino community, regardless of individuals’ immigration status. (Another office he headed in Boyle Heights recently closed.) A controversial figure at times, Lopez was a former Santa Ana School Board member best known for his work in organizing Latinos for decades.
“Nativo worked in two worlds, one in L.A. and one in Orange County,” said Zeke Hernandez, president of the Santa Ana chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens. “We’ll recognize the good work that Nativo did and accomplished in the Latino immigrant community.”
