{"id":455013,"date":"2026-10-03T06:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455013\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:06:18","slug":"alfonso-lopez-last-living-member-of-bowies-1948-49-state-champion-bears-buried-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455013\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfonso Lopez, last living member of Bowie\u2019s 1948-49 state champion Bears, buried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Alfonso Lopez, the last living member of the 1948-49 Bowie Bears team that captured the first Texas state championship, was laid to rest on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Lopez died last month at the age of 94. <\/p>\n<p>Family and friends gathered to celebrate his life and legacy beyond the baseball field.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/alfonso-lopez-the-last-living-member-of-bowie-1949-state-championship-team-passes-away?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alfonso Lopez, the last living member of Bowie 1949 state championship team, passes away<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the legacy lies in the struggle of the team and what they accomplished in the end,\u201d said Manny Avila, Lopez\u2019s nephew. \u201cGoing, above and beyond difficult circumstances to achieve what they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Avila said Lopez\u2019s story reflects what can be achieved with belief and support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as you believe and you have the right people around you and the right support, anything is possible,\u201d Avila said.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez\u2019s family said they hope his story can continue to inspire others in the community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Alfonso Lopez, the last living member of the 1948-49 Bowie Bears team that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-455013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}