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How did a famous Mexican poet end up buried and forgotten in the Philadelphia suburbs?

Gilberto Owen Estrada’s gravesite has been empty for 71 years. Now there are efforts to repatriate his remains to his home in El Rosario.

The unmarked grave of Mexican poet Gilberto Owen Estrada in Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, Pa. His is the plot in front of the gravestone on the right.
The unmarked grave of Mexican poet Gilberto Owen Estrada in Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon, Pa. His is the plot in front of the gravestone on the right.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer