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Family honors woman s wish to be buried with cross she carried to San Antonio after escape from communist Hungary
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Agnes Rosza displays a picture of a cross on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2021, that was carried by her aunt, Rose Helen Safran, when she escaped the communist forces that invaded Budapest in 1956. Safran and her husband, Stephen, became leaders of the Hungarian community in San Antonio.Billy Calzada /Billy Calzada
In the last months of her life, Rose Helen Safran was bedridden and dementia had robbed her of the ability to tell richly detailed stories of her beloved homeland of Hungary and a hair-raising escape from communist forces in the 1950s.