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Susanna MacManus was teaching Spanish at Occidental College in 1997 when the family business came calling.

But when her mother retired and the future of Cielito Lindo seemed in doubt, MacManus and her sisters took over.

MacManus died June 25 of cardiac arrest in Pasadena.

The vivacious MacManus became Cielito Lindo’s co-manager and public face even as she continued to lecture at Occidental.

“She felt it was such an iconic L.A. institution,” said Viviana MacManus, Susanna’s daughter and chair of Occidental’s Critical Theory and Social Justice department.