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Private Funeral For Garcia

Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 August 1995

MEMBERS OF THE Grateful Dead and the widow of Jerry Garcia spent yesterday making plans for a funeral, while tributes continued to roll in and fans grieved the death of the beloved guitarist, who died early Wednesday morning at age 53 in a Marin County drug treatment center.

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