Fernando David Larios Lavin

Fernando David Larios Lavin was born on Wednesday August 7, 1940 in Mexico to the parents of Ernesto Conrado Larios Garcia and Virginia Lavin De Larios.

Son, grandson, brother, cousin, father, step-father, uncle, great uncle, grandfather, great grandfather, mentor, friend, teacher, and widower, Fernando David Larios Lavin is remembered for his passion for communication and understanding, and his inspirational love of lifelong learning and development.

His struggles in life never stopped him from dreaming.

He leaves a legacy that spans several countries and generations, through his keen gift for helping others to recognize their own inner strengths and to find their own path in life, as he continued his lifelong search for his own path and purpose.

In San Antonio, he was a pioneer and early adopter of technology, working to computerize his workplaces in from the earliest Acorn Computers and first Basic language.

His copy editing, journalism, translations, and photography work appeared in El Sol de Texas, and North Texas Catholic. The most meaningful publication to him, from all his work, was “Tras las Huellas de Carpentier en Los Pasos Perdidos” in 1971, due, as he often said, to the pivotal role his older brother played in its completion.

His career in higher education and cultural affairs spanned the Universidad Nacional Autonomy (UNAM) in Mexico, the University of Texas, the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC), the North American Institute of Foreign Relations, the Goethe Institute, the Dante Alighieri Institute, Antioch College, the University of Georgia, Tarrant County Junior College, Collin County Community College, McKinney Independent School District, Kennedy-Curry Middle High School, the German College in Mexico and the Banking and Commerce College in Mexico.

He also reached many through mentoring and tutoring in Texas, California, New York, Rhode Island as well as in Mexico and in England. His last student finished their course with him only a few weeks before he died.

He was a keen enthusiast of nutrition and exercise. He was moved by music and the poetry of the ordinary and was at his most serene when communing softly with nature: he understood the languages of trees. He was also fluent in 9 languages, eight spoken and one non-spoken. It was this one unspoken language which those who had the pleasure of knowing him will never stop hearing.

Which made him a master of “corny dad jokes” and he retained his sense of humor and his awe of life through to his last breaths.

In what was at the time not expected to be his final conversion, he described there were many things he had yet to say to his loved ones, not yet having found the right words. After praying the Lord’s Prayer together, he explained the importance of knowing that “adios is made up of three words, which mean, ‘Thanks Be to God’”.

Fernando will be truly missed by many relatives and friends, cherishing all the good memories shared with him. He will always be remembered for the loving spirit and kindness he showed to everyone around him.

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