Hampton remembers: Griselda Tello leaves behind a guiding light in the form of a smile

     In more ways than one, Griselda Tello was a dreamer.
     When she was young, her father traveled to America for work, so he could send money back to Mexico to support Tello, her mother and brother. When she was nine-years-old, she and the rest of her family also packed up their belongings and headed to America to begin a new life in Hampton.
     What followed were 12 years of perseverance in education, and fulfilling her childhood dreams of becoming a nurse, despite the challenges of not being a U.S. citizen.
     Graduating from North Iowa Area Community College  (NIACC) this past spring, Tello, 22, was living her dream. She was working as a Registered Nurse (RN) with Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa, Mason City, in the Critical Care Unit and as part of the nursing resource pool (a pool of “floating” nurses who work in various units). But her time living out her dream was short lived.
     On Nov. 25, 2016, Tello’s dream was cut short when a 2005 Chevrolet K3500, traveling northbound on Highway 65 in the Rockwell area, veered into her lane, striking her 2001 Chevrolet Impala. At approximately 7:35 p.m., on the day after Thanksgiving, paramedics pronounced Tello dead at the scene. 
     Read the full article in the December 7 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.