When I left the ceremony, I called Magda Maldonado, director of Continental Funeral Home in East Los Angeles. But the pain in his right knee didn’t go away, so Maria took him back to the doctor for X-rays that showed an abnormality. After a biopsy a week later, Matthew, 8 at the time, found out he had bone cancer. Jocelyn, Hector and Maria Torres of La Puente at Continental Funeral Home in East L.A., making arrangements for Matthew Torres, who died this week at the age of 10 after two years with cancer. The Torres family picked out and will pay for a $1,550 casket for Matthew.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 09, 2018 00:00 UTC