Funeral services scheduled for Key Bridge collapse victim Maynor Suazo Sandoval
Funeral services for Maynor Suazo Sandoval, one of the six construction workers killed in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, are scheduled for this weekend.
A celebration of life and prayer service for Sandoval, a father of two who lived in Owings Mills, is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. Friday at March Life Tribute Center in Randallstown. A visitation and funeral service will start at 9 a.m. the following morning at TrinityLife, a church in Lutherville.
The services are public, and part of Friday’s celebration is expected to be streamed online.
Sandoval, whose 39th birthday would have been the day after the collapse, was part of the Brawner Builders crew filling potholes on the Key Bridge early on March 26. Sandoval and five of his co-workers were killed when the cargo ship departing the Port of Baltimore struck a support column, causing the bridge to collapse into the Patapsco River. Two men, a Brawner worker and a construction inspector, survived the collapse.
Divers recovered Sandoval’s body earlier this month. The remains of two other victims — Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera — were found the day after the collapse. A fourth, identified by Mexican officials as Carlos Daniel Hernández, was recovered Sunday from a construction vehicle in the wreckage. Crews are continuing efforts to find the remains of Miguel Luna and José Mynor López, the two remaining missing workers. Funeral services for Hernandez Fuentes and Castillo Cabrera were held last weekend.
Sandoval, of Azacualpa in Santa Bárbara, Honduras, came to the U.S. “in search of better opportunities for himself and his family,” his obituary reads in Spanish. He continued to have “a lot of love for his town,” sending money back and sponsoring a football league, a family friend told The Baltimore Sun after the collapse. He was the youngest of eight siblings and was always joyful, his brother told The Sun. CASA, a local nonprofit supporting immigrants, said member Sandoval had a knack for machinery and dreamed of starting his own business.
A decade ago, Sandoval married Bertalia Verenice Martínez, according to his obituary. The couple had a daughter, Alexa Suazo, who the obituary says was “la niña de sus ojos” — the Spanish equivalent of “the apple of his eye.” The couple also raised two other children, Kimberly and Paola, who “loved him like a father,” the obituary says. He was also survived by an 18-year-old son named Yasir, according the obituary, which describes Maynor as a loving and exemplary father, husband, brother and son who was always willing to help others.