(Photo above: (L-R) Jason, Rolo, Maria and Orlando Garcia | courtesy of the Garcia family)
Construction community rallies to fund higher education of surviving sons of Rolando ‘Rolo’ Garcia.
A community park located within the new Pettigrew Place neighborhood in east Bend will be dedicated on Saturday to the memory of Rolando “Rolo” Garcia, a longtime fixture of Bend’s building community who died unexpectedly of a heart aneurysm on Christmas Day.
A concrete foreman for Fire and Ice Concrete, the 41-year-old Garcia was responsible for installing all Hayden Homes sidewalks, patios, driveways and porches over the past 16 years.
In addition to Saturday’s park dedication, a cul-de-sac currently under construction in Pettigrew Place will be named Rolo Court.
WHO: Surviving family of Rolando Garcia, including wife Maria and sons Orlando and Jason.
Hayden Homes’ Central Oregon team Garcia’s former co‐workers at Fire and Ice Concrete
WHAT: Park dedication honoring Rolando “Rolo” Garcia in the new Pettigrew Place neighborhood in Southeast Bend. A Hayden Homes subcontractor for 16 years, the 41-year-old father of two died unexpectedly on Christmas Day, 2015.
WHEN: Noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, May 7
WHERE: Pettigrew Place community park in SE Bend Corner of Darnel Place and Daly Estates Drive
OTHER: Garcia’s dream was to see his two sons attend and graduate from college, but that dream was at risk without the family’s primary wage earner. The Bend community – from former Hayden Homes and Fire and Ice co‐workers to Summit High School, where his sons
play football – have rallied to support the Garcia family with donations to a 529 Educational Savings Plan that have ensured both Orlando, 20, and Jason, 18, can attend college. Additionally, as a gesture of gratitude for Garcia’s 16 years of service, Hayden Homes last week donated $10,000 to the family to cover a burdensome final tax bill on Garcia’s 2015 earnings.
