LE/S Mourns Julia Valdivieso, Mother of Section Chair Pernell Valdivieso

We regret to annouce the passing of Julia Valdivieso, 70. A longtime Board of Education employee, she was the mother of Line Equipment/Signals Section Chair Pernell Valdivieso, who raised her son as a single Mom. She struggled with ailments including Lupus, Raynaud's Syndrome, emphysema and Crohn's Disease, then lung cancer.

Pernell remembers her as "the true definition of perseverance. A fighter."

May she Rest in Peace. Arrangements to be announced.