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Graduate honors ‘Grandpy’

When Kloee Fairchild, 18, walked the stage to accept her Lamesa High School diploma at the graduation ceremony Friday night, she brought someone with her.Not in the physical form, but in a photograph on a paper fan.The square fan depicted an old photograph of her late great-grandfather, Robert Garcia, when he was 15-17 years old.She held that fan in one hand and accepted her diploma from School Superintendent David Ritchey presented in the other.“It made me feel like he was there with me,” Kloee said.The man she called “Grandpy,” “Grandpas” or “Popo” and who loved peanuts and Coca-Cola died of ...

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