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Since the pandemic, her youngest daughter, Dora, said, she had been there less, to protect her energy and health, but she still visited “the Hut” a few times a week and kept an eye on Yuca’s second location in the parking lot of another liquor store on Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena.

After a brief illness, Socorro “Mama Yuca’s” Herrera died on Dec. 23 at age 89.

On Friday morning, Yuca’s posted its first announcement of Socorro’s passing on Instagram.

For some, the origin story of Los Feliz begins on Hillhurst Avenue, under the canopy of “Mama” Socorro Herrera’s Yuca’s Hut.

The father, Owen Moogan, moved from New York 18 years ago and has been a Yuca’s customer for just as long.