Tears in Barcelona at funeral for Germanwings crash victim

Three months after the Germanwings jet crashed in the French Alps, hundreds of tearful mourners packed a funeral home on Saturday to say goodbye to Robert Oliver Calvo, who was on his last weekly business trip abroad before a change at work that would have kept him home more.

No mention of the crash itself was made during the service, except in the funeral program that said he died at age 36 “in the airplane tragedy in the Alps on the Germanwings Airbus A320 owned by Lufthansa.” 

Instead, the father of two small children was remembered as a deeply religious and dedicated family man on his last regular business trip abroad for the Barcelona-based clothing store chain Desigual.

Oliver Calvo’s job as a real estate manager was to head to Austria, Germany and Switzerland frequently for three to four day trips to inaugurate the company’s new stores, and he was on his way to open a new Duesseldorf store when the plane crashed.