“This is Di. She died in your city in Fair Oaks Park. And nobody communicated about putting that fence up,” Shaunn Cartwright, an advocate for the unhoused population in Santa Clara County, said while holding a pamphlet from Deborah "Di" Giron’s memorial service. She joined others at a protest Jan. 11 at Sunnyvale City Hall. (Photos by Jana Kadah/Bay City News Foundation)

“She is pretty, she is beautiful; she is the one who is the most dear to me.”

The speaker was Rose Gregorio, an advocate for Sunnyvale’s unhoused population, her voice breaking as she struggled to find the right words to describe her closest confidant and now-deceased friend — 62-year-old unhoused Sunnyvale resident Deborah “Di” Giron.

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