Daughter of late doctor, activist to release book about father
With hundreds of photographs snapped over decades and enough memories to fill a library, Cecilia Garcia Akers had the content for a novel.
Then, about a year ago, she was approached by the publishing company and a novel is about to be reality.
"I laughed and said I had never done one," Garcia Akers said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It's an opportunity for people to understand what Papa was really like as a human being; his struggles and his family's struggles. I thought that I had to do it and make whatever sacrifices we have to make."
Dedication of the Jennie Sealy Hospital at UTMB
Cecilia Garcia Akers, President and James Akers, Treasurer of the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Foundation attended the dedication of the Jennie Sealy Hospital at UTMB, Galveston on February 26, 2016.The Garcia Foundation is proud to be a donor to this beautiful, state of the art facility that is primed to improve access to quality care.
LULAC Community Awards Banquet
Pamela Robertson, CEO of Christus Spohn, and Jimmy Akers at the LULAC Community Awards Banquet. Pam accepted the Humanitarian Award on behalf of Christus Spohn on February 18, 2016.
TAMUCC Mary and Jeff Bell Library
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is proud to honor the legacy of Dr. Hector P. Garcia (1914-1996), a Corpus Christi physician and champion of Mexican-American civil rights, through the collection of his papers and with a statue on campus.
The University’s Mary and Jeff Bell Library exhibits several of his letters and photos as part of its special collections. Garcia’s papers, donated in 1990, represent one of the most valuable resources in existence on the Mexican-American experience during the last half of the 20th Century. They contain voluminous archives dealing with the American GI Forum, which he founded in 1948 to organize veterans to fight for educational and medical benefits. It includes letters to and from Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.