Parents of Girl Who Died After Fight Invite Mourners Tonight

At 6 p.m., the family will receive visitors at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., until about 8 p.m. At 3 p.m. SUNDAY, the funeral is scheduled in the cemetery.

The family of a 10-year-old Long Beach girl, who collapsed and died Feb. 24 following a planned after-school fight in an alley with an 11-year-old girl, will receive mourners at Hollywood Forever Cemetery tonight.

Joanna Ramos, who went to Frances Willard Elementary School - near Redondo and 10th, and about a mile from Wilson High - is scheduled to be buried at Hollywood Forever Sunday afternoon in a public, 3 p.m. graveside ceremony.

Joanna may have been kneed in the nose. A coroner's spokesman said the cause of a blunt force trauma to the head, but would not go into details about the mechanism of death.

The Press Telegram reported witnesses--classmates--saying that the other girl grabbed Joanna by the hair at the temples and slammed Joanna's forehead onto her knee.

Joanna's mother, Cecilia Villanueva, told the Press-Telegram that, when Joanna came home after the fight, she was nauseous and vomiting. She told her mother she had been punched in the head, then fell unconscious. The girl had no pulse by the time her mother got her to a hospital. So far, the other girl has not been charged with a crime. No weapons were used in the fight.

Long Beach Police Departmment is continuing to investigate the fifth grader's death.

--City News Service contributed to this story.