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Araceli Diaz Obituary
Araceli Yolanda Diaz, 19, of Chula Vista died Friday. She was born in Oxnard and was a college student. She was a member of Saint Jude Shrine of the West.
Survivors include her parents, Maria Diaz of Chula Vista and Dimas Diaz of Arizona; sister, Nayelie Zamora of Chula Vista; brothers, Nicholas Diaz, Ivan Diaz and Jesus Zamora, all of Chula Vista; and grandparents, Maria Lumus and Francisco Torres.
Visitation: 2 to 8 p.m. today, Humphrey Mortuary, 753 Broadway, Chula Vista.
Services: 1 p.m. tomorrow, at the mortuary.
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Nick Ng
June 23, 2025
It's been 20 years since Araceli's death. She would've been 39 this year.
I met her and her friend Celicia Terrones at Hot Monkey Love Cafe near SDSU on a Sunday salsa dancing night. I think they were dance students of Tony Caligagan. They were really good dancers, even though they had a few months of lessons and practice.
I still remember Araceli's sweaty palms after a dance, and our hands kept slipping halfway through a song. We would laugh about it.
I took this picture of them at El Gato Loco Cafe in downtown San Diego in March (?) 2005 when we had a salsa event there.
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