Action 4 News has posted a copy of KGBT-TV's original report of the Alton bus wreck that claimed 21 lives back on September 21st, 1989.
Mission CISD sent us the wording used in a plaque that hangs inside Alton Memorial Junior High School reads:
This campus is dedicated to the memory of the young lives that were lost as a result of a bus accident on the morning of September 21, 1989 as they were on their way to school. In selecting the name of Alton Memorial Junior High School, it was the intention of the Mission CISD Board of Trustees and the community to remember the following children and to celebrate their lives and the positive impact they had on their families, friends, schools and community. Dedicated on this 21st day of September 2003
Maria Alfaro
Born January 13, 1975
Roberto Bazaldua, Jr.
Born April 26, 1976
Margarita Buentello
Born April 19, 1977
Carmen Canales
Born March 13, 1972
Elda P. Cruz
Born August 4, 1977
Raul Flores
Born July 8, 1971
Elizabeth Flores
Born May 5, 1974
Abdon Garcia
Born February 23, 1975
Armando Gonzalez
Born January 21, 1975
Ruby Lopez
Born October 12, 1976
Marta Amelia Lozano
Born August 15, 1974
Jose L. Ortega
Born September 14, 1974
Veronica Perez
Born March 28, 1976
Yesenia Perez
Born October 12, 1973
Roman Quintero
Born March 11, 1975
Apolonia Regalado
Born March 10, 1976
Maria Regalado
Born September 28, 1974
Anna Rodriguez
Born June 15, 1973
David Saenz
Born December 14, 1976
Michael P. Saenz
Born November 18, 1974
Alberto Vasquez
Born January 10, 1977
TV Station Profiles & Public Inspection Files forKGBT