Copyright 2019 KVIA. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Antonio Basco mourns the loss of his wife at the makeshift memorial near Walmart.
EL PASO, Texas - An El Paso man whose 63-year-old wife died in the Walmart shootings invited the public Tuesday to her funeral service later this week, saying he has no other family.
Margie Reckard was "an angel" to Antonio Basco, her husband of more than two decades. And with his late wife's passing, Basco says there is no remaining family, so he is opening up her funeral to the community.
Services for Reckard will be held on Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. at Perches Funeral Home at 4946 Hondo Pass in northeast El Paso. The funeral home director told ABC-7 that his chapel will hold about 200 people, and he hopes it will be filled for the service.
Basco said that he and Reckard were together for 22 years, and her kindness and selflessness were incomparable.
"I mean you didn't even have to be there to talk to her. You could just look at how she was, how she acted, how she presented herself. She was an awesome lady," he recently told The Associated Press. "You see Margie, more or less, was the brains of the family."
Basco said he and Reckard knew there was something between them as soon as they met, and their life together was like something out of a fairy tale. Reckard was the strong one, he said, and she's "going to be missed a lot."
"We were gonna live together and die together," he said. "That was our plan."
RoryTheMustardKing on August 14th, 2019 at 00:21 UTC »
This is heart wrenching. More than two decades together and it's all just stolen in an instant by some monster who isn't even as old as your relationship.
There's no justice for this.
true_spokes on August 14th, 2019 at 00:18 UTC »
If you live in El Paso please show this man some love. If you’re not here’s the website of the top-rated florist in El Paso and the website of a somewhat cheaper option. Let’s make this story about more than tragedy and loss.
Edit: if you’d like something more pragmatic, Albertson’s is a local grocery that does delivery.
mydogbuddha on August 14th, 2019 at 00:10 UTC »
Fucking heartbreaking, a lifetime together robbed by hate.
NO ONE DESERVES THIS