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Virginia Ramos, the Mission’s iconic Tamale Lady, dies at 65

by El Tecolote Staff October 5, 2018October 19, 2018

Virginia Ramos, the Mission District’s “Tamale Lady”—known for passing out words of wisdom and homemade tamales to local bar crawlers—has died at the age of 65. The San Francisco Medical Examiner confirmed Ramos died on Sept. 27 after decades of wheeling her cooler full of tamales around bars in the Mission District for hungry bar […]

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