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…showed last 75 words of 433 total…honored in death by those he led in life. More than 50,000 mourners came to honor him at the site of his first public fast in 1968 and his last in 1988, the United Farm Workers Delano Field Office at "Forty Acres". It was the largest funeral of any labor leader in the history of the U.S. They came in caravans from Florida to California to pay respect to a man whose strength was in his simplicity.