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BAKERSFIELD -- She may not have had a permanent home, but it turns out "Downtown Mary" had plenty of neighbors.
About 100 of them jammed a funeral parlor Tuesday to bid farewell to the stooped, smiling, disheveled woman whose sweet humility made the streets a little less mean in this sprawling oil and cotton patch town of 275,000.
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This is a truly inspiring story of a woman that was not well off in a financial sense but was loved for who she was and what she meant to people.
BAKERSFIELD -- She may not have had a permanent home, but it turns out "Downtown Mary" had plenty of neighbors.
About 100 of them jammed a funeral parlor Tuesday to bid farewell to the stooped, smiling, disheveled woman whose sweet humility made the streets a little less mean in this sprawling oil and cotton patch town of 275,000.
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This is a truly inspiring story of a woman that was not well off in a financial sense but was loved for who she was and what she meant to people.
