More than a hundred family and friends packed the rosary held for Alicia Levario, 15, Wednesday night at Acres West Funeral Chapel.
Previous Odessa American stories show that police reports said Alicia was in the backseat and Kaely Chacon, 16, was in the passenger seat of a 2001 Grand Marquis driven by Edgar Polanco, 17, Sept. 4 when he ran a stop light at the intersection of Eighth Street and Muskingum Avenue colliding with a 2008 Lincoln Navigator driven by Yvonne Natividad, 32, and containing her passenger Robert Gomez, 44.

Chacon, Polanco, Natividad and Gomez were transported to Medical Center Hospital along with Alicia, but they had all been released by Sept. 6 while Alicia remained in a coma.
She died Sept. 12 at Medical Center Hospital from injuries sustained during the wreck.
Her family made the decision to donate her organs, they said, so that she could continue to help people like she had done all her life.

Alicia was a student at Odessa High School along with Chacon and many of their peers have helped with benefits put on for Alicia's family and made it a point to visit the hospital while Alicia was there.

The door swung back and forth to the sound of feet shuffling to find a place to stand, or possibly sit, and pay their respects to Alicia's family.

Flowers surrounded the white casket at the front of the room and to the left of them stood a television looping a slideshow of pictures taken of Alicia, her friends and her family over the past 15 years.

Lupe Gutierrez lived next door to Alicia and her family for around two years and said her son was always at the Levario's home playing with their children; Alicia often babysat her brothers when her parents went out and sometimes ended up babysitting Gutierrez' son as well.

"She was a good girl," Gutierrez said holding her infant daughter outside the chapel. "Her mother—that was her everything."

Gutierrez talked about how close the Levarios were and how her son told her recently how nice Alicia had always been to him.

Alicia's great-aunt, Rosella Autry, stood outside the chapel Wednesday evening gathering strength after she said she had run herself down trying to be a means of support for her family since the day the accident happened on Sept. 4.

"She loved to sing—she was acting goofy all the time," Autry said smiling as she remembers her great-niece, who referred to her as 'tia'. "We were watching videos of her the other day and her and her brothers were just taking turns singing."

Autry said her family has always been close and they have gotten much closer over the past few weeks.

She said she has not worried much about herself during but instead has been doing everything she could to help Alicia's parents, Adan and Michelle Levario.

Pastor Jay Marquez had a message for everyone that attended the service to seek strength and understanding throughout their time of grieving.

Marquez asked Alicia's family and friends to take time and remember the last 15 years they had with Alicia and use that to find peace and patience with the tragedy they were dealing with.

He said in a discussion with Michelle he told her that even as a father and a man that dealt with youth regularly, he could not imagine what she was going through at this time.

Marquez said people ask him regularly at services what they can tell the family to console them after the death of a family member.

He said he would tell the people in the chapel what he told everyone else before.
"You can't tell them anything," Marquez said. "Just give them a hug."

Funeral services for Alicia Levario will be held at 10 a.m. today at Acres West Funeral Chapel, 8115 W. University Blvd.