Local memorials across Tucson area
Some Tucson memorials are well known, but others are tucked away. Send us your memorial photos to eds@tucson.com
Local memorials across Tucson area
Anyone who’s been in Tucson for more than an hour knows about the Father Kino on horseback statue at Kino Boulevard and East 15th Street.
Some memorials, though, are tucked away in neighborhoods and harder to find and still others have special meaning that you may not even have realized. Here's a look at some of them.
Send your own memorial photos to eds@tucson.com
Local memorials
El Parque de Orlando y Diego Mendoza — This downtown area park, at Convent Avenue and 18th Street, has roses, a shrine and a colorful metal version of papel picado for decoration — dedicated to two young brothers killed by a drunk driver.
Local memorials
“Freedom’s Angel of Steadfast Love” statue at Kriegh Park — The 9-foot, 11-inch angel — crafted from steel and other materials from the World Trade Center and two other 9/11 crash sites — that stands in Oro Valley’s James D. Kriegh Park honors Christina-Taylor Green, the youngest victim in the Jan. 8 Tucson shooting spree who also was born on 9/11.
Local memorials
Ghost bikes — The white bicycles dotting Tucson roadways are memorials for cyclists who’ve been killed and serve as reminders to motorists to be vigilant. The first Ghost Bike went up seven years ago at East Broadway and South Vozack Lane where 14-year-old Jose Rincon was killed by a drunk driver.
Local memorials
Richard J. Heakin Jr. memorial — In the east side of Sunset Park, which is immediately north of City Hall, is a bench and memorial for Richard J. Heakin Jr., who was severely beaten outside a gay nightclub in 1976. His death and the subsequent widespread outrage over the probation sentences handed down to his teenage attackers, led to Tucson becoming one of the first cities to pass an anti-discrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation.
Local memorials
Michael A. Perry Memorial Park statues — The oversized bunny on a bat and a turtle with a mitt and baseball at the corner of East Golf Links Road and South Pantano Parkway look like playful public art — and they are — but they’re meant to be a more visible marker for the park, which is tucked back off those roads and named for a 12-year-old boy who was murdered in 1984.
Local memorials
Sentinel Peak Shrine — An Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine has graced a small grotto on the southeast slope of the mountain since 1993. A former Pima County jail inmate created it after he was released from jail for a crime he didn’t commit.
Local memorials
Old Main Memorial Fountain — The fountain just west of the University of Arizona’s Old Main is more than a nice spot to read a book — it’s actually Berger Memorial Fountain, which honors those UA students who lost their lives in World War I. It was a gift from Alexander Berger, whose nephew Alexander Tindolph Berger is one of those honored.
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