LYNWOOD — Services for longtime city employee Adolfo Medina will be held this weekend starting with a viewing and a rosary at Bateman Hall on Friday from 4 to 8 p.m.

Medina was a 31-year city employee who was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, and moved to Lynwood when he was 12 years old. He was a 1968 graduate of Lynwood High School. The 49-year resident of Lynwood, raised his family here.

A supervisor in the Public Works Department, Medina took pride in his work making sure landscape throughout the city was always kept up 100 percent, said Mayor Maria Santillan. “He was one of the most dedicated and committed employees this city has ever had,” she said.

Even on his days off, Medina would call in to the city to report things he didn’t see up to par in landscaping, or he would pull over and “take care of the problem right then and there,” Santillan said his family has told her. “He really loved his job, and he loved this city,” the mayor said. “He will never be forgotten.”

Medina was found dead at City Hall July 1 at around 6:30 a.m. after sheriff’s homicide detectives responded to the public works yard, located behind Bateman Hall, to investigate the circumstances surrounding a shooting still under investigation.

Medina was 60.

Mayor Pro Tem Aide Castro said that her prayers are with Medina’s family.
“I don’t know what to say to his family,” she said. “All I can think of is thanking them for sharing their father and husband with this city for 31 years. … My prayers are with them.”

The viewing begins promptly at 4 p.m. Friday. A rosary follows at 6:30 p.m. Bateman Hall is located at 11331 Ernestine Drive.

Funeral Mass is scheduled Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at St. Emydius Church, 10900 California Ave.

Burial will be at All Souls Cemetery, 4400 Cherry Ave., Long Beach, followed by a reception at the Lynwood Youth Center, 11409 Birch St., Lynwood.

Medina is survived by his wife, Concepcion; his sons, Marvin Medina and Adolfo Medina Jr.; his daughters, Natalia Medina, Cynthia Covarrubias, and Marcy Schaub, and six grandchildren.