Mercedes Amplifies Ties To Famed Doctor
Growing up in Mercedes, Skyler Howell knew the name of Dr. Hector P. Garcia, but not much else about the man whose likeness graces the front of the local library. “I knew his name was on the library, but there was no context for it,” said Howell, a recent UTRGV graduate. Garcia was a Mexican immigrant whose family came to the Rio Grande Valley and Mercedes in the early 1900s.…