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Article: El Monte leader Carol Trujillo dies
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- Whittier Daily News
- Article date:
- December 4, 2004
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Carol Lynne Trujillo was the master fund- raiser and savvy
promoter for the city of El Monte.
If you wanted a children's parade, a slick ceremony to launch
anevent or happening, Trujillo knew how to get it done.
After almost 15 years of working in El Monte's government and
private sector, Trujillo died Thursday from a bacterial infection at
Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in Glendora.
She was 59.
Trujillo fell ill the day after Thanksgiving. Family members took
her to the hospital Thursday, where she died within hours of her
arrival, relatives said.
Colleagues took the news hard.
"Every girl in City Hall was crying,' El Monte City Manager Juan
Mireles said.
A mother with three children, ...