Lydia Garcia, 94, a Catholic schoolteacher in the Diocese of Brooklyn for 23 years, died Jan. 9.
Starting as a volunteer at Our Lady of Good Counsel, Bushwick, in 1960, she began teaching third grade at the school full-time in 1964.
When Our Lady of Good Counsel closed in 1973, she taught third grade at Holy Rosary School, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and later third grade at St. Rita, East New York, until she retired in 1987.
She is survived by her son, Rene Garcia Grayre of New York.
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