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Milena’s Kids Focus On Burial,
Not Life in U.S.
By Jairo Villegas and Laura
Crimaldi, Boston Herald
The remains of Milena Del Valle,
the tunnel collapse victim who
was robbed of her life by the
tragic blunders of the us$14.6
billion Big Dig, arrived in her
native Costa Rica last night as
loved ones prepared to bury her
in her homeland.
“What’s really important for us
is that mother is here in the
country and we want to be with
her,” Del Valle’s eldest
daughter, Raquel Ibarra Mora,
23, said yesterday from her
modest home in Coronado.
A funeral service will be held
for Del Valle, 38, at the
Christian church Oasis de
Esperanza in Moravia, which is
near her hometown of Coronado,
said Mora, who lives with her
brothers, Kaleb, 20, and Jeremy,
17.
She will be buried in a cemetery
at La Isla de Moravia, Mora
said.
Monday night, Del Valle’s
remains arrived in Costa Rica on
a Delta flight. They were
carried to a Christian church in
Dulce Nombre de Coronado for a
vigil, Mora said.
At a memorial service Saturday
at the Iglesia de la Comunidad
in Jamaica Plain, the church
where Del Valle was married, her
husband, Angel, vowed to do
whatever necessary to bring her
three children to America if
they wish.
Yesterday, however, a possible
move to the United States was
not on the minds of Del Valle’s
children. “Any decision we may
make will be later,” Mora said.
“God will say what he has for us
since it is not in our hands.”
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