LIVE, LOVE, AND LAUGH. Cicero honors Catalina Garcia.

School officials said Garcia was an honors student who ran track, worked on the yearbook staff and was a member of the modern dance team that expressed ideas and personal views through movement.

She was quiet but had big ideas, said Lilia Contreras, who taught Garcia's advanced placement English class in 2006. She can't forget Garcia's most prominent attribute: "She always had a smile on her face."

Garcia's family members agreed, saying she was always grinning and liked to dote on her 6-month-old niece. She also enjoyed dancing and listening to music.