REMEMBERING NORM MINETA: A public memorial service is being held today to celebrate the life of former SJ Mayor Norman Mineta, who broke racial barriers. You can watch it live at 10:30 a.m. here or on our ABC7 streaming apps.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Native son Norman Y. Mineta served 11 terms in Congress representing San Jose. He served two Presidents as the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Transportation. However, he often told friends that the title he liked most after decades of public service was having served as the Mayor San Jose. Mineta returned home to San Jose Wednesday morning where he will be laid to rest after dying May 3 at his home in Edgewater, Maryland.
The procession turned onto North Fifth Street where residents lined the sidewalk outside two churches to pay their respects. Children from the Lotus Preschool stood outside the San Jose Buddhist Church, holding a banner with their names. A woman across the street held up a sign to the slowly moving stretch limousine carrying the wooden urn with Mineta's wife Deni, saying"Thanks a Million, Norm." Norm was how people knew him, not Norman.
A block away, a choir sang outside the Wesley United Methodist Church. Members of the renowned San Jose Taiko group drummed. Perhaps most meaningful of all, several Scout troops stood at attention to salute the hearse at the railroad tracks at Fifth and Empire streets where Mineta and his family were ordered to board a train that would take them to the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming as a result of Executive Order 9066 aimed at Japanese Americans during World War II.
The motorcade then arrived at San Jose City Hall where Mineta's urn is lying in state Wednesday afternoon for the public to file past and to pay their respects. Two long-time friends and political colleagues, Rod Diridon Sr. and Blanca Alvarado, both former county supervisors, provided remarks. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and Vice Mayor Chappie Jones presented a proclamation to Mrs. Mineta that June 16 is Norman Y. Mineta Day in San Jose.
You can watch the public memorial service live Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in the video player above or on our
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