EL PASO, Texas – Gone, but never forgotten.<\/p>\n
Thursday marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Eddie Guerrero.<\/p>\n
A Sun City legend who even with the passage of time is remembered fondly in the Borderland.<\/p>\n
Tuesday city council honored the wrestling icon with a special proclamation, declaring November 18 as Eddie Guerrero Day.<\/p>\n
Lowriders lined the streets outside city hall, while dozens packed city council chambers<\/p>\n
Fans wore lucha\u00a0masks along with their favorite Eddie Guerrero t-shirt.<\/p>\n
A graduate of Jefferson High School,\u00a0Guerrero was a member of the legendary Guerrero family, the first family of lucha libre.<\/p>\n
Before his death in 2005 at the age of 38, Guerrero was a top superstar in the WWE.<\/p>\n
Members of Guerrero’s family were in attendance for Tuesday’s proclamation.<\/p>\n
They included two of his daughters, along with his sisters and cousins.<\/p>\n
Guerrero’s eldest daughter Sherilyn Guerrero accepted the proclamation and\u00a0spoke before city council about her father’s legacy.<\/p>\n
“Fortunately I really do not think I can say the words if my dad was here because I’m looking at this crowd and he truly is,” Sherilyn Guerrero said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas – Gone, but never forgotten. Thursday marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Eddie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-55785","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\/55785","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=55785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}