Edcouch-Elsa memorializes community icon Benny Layton – TheMonitor.com
Posted: March 29, 2011 Filed under: accordion, Conjunto is Life, Conjunto music | Tags: accordion, benny layton, conjunto, conjunto hall of fame, layton Leave a commentELSA — A lone Edcouch-Elsa High School flag was attached to the inner lining of Benigno “Benny” Layton’s casket.
As it was opened at a public viewing Tuesday night, the late Edcouch-Elsa school board president’s family filled the Robert Capello Gym with sobs, his daughter screaming for “daddy.”
“Benny was a gifted person,” brother Tony Layton said of the 60-year-old Elsa Municipal Court Judge who died Saturday in a motorcycle accident near San Antonio. “Benny was giving to us all the time.”
“He loved music, he loved the family and above all he loved you, Edcouch-Elsa,” he continued. “He was so proud of his roots, of where he was from.”
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