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On Friday, January 2, 2015 our beautiful angel, Lucy Maria De La Luz R. Gonzalez was called home to Our Lord and to join our father, her husband of 63 years, Viviano Gonzalez. Lucy was born May 18, 1924, in San Bernardino, California, to Maria Figueroa and Francisco Ramirez. Soon after she married Viviano Gonzalez, they moved to Pearsall, Texas, and later to the East Side of San Antonio, Texas. Lucy was a devout Catholic and longtime parishioner and Eucharistic Minister at St. Benedict Catholic Church. She was well known for extending her grace, love, and faith for the Lord to her children and everyone around her. She was a member of the Guadalupana Society and volunteer at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Senior Citizen Center where she was crowned Mother of The Year. Lucy had a deep love for the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa where she and Viviano attended Mass every morning and formed a beautiful bond with the priest and sisters of the Shrine until the end of their days. In addition to her faith, she was a generous hostess. Anyone who entered her home was greeted with sweet tea, and anyone who stayed long enough would not leave her home with an empty stomach. Not only a homemaker who lovingly raised her eight children, Lucy found time to make silk flowers by hand for weddings and quinceañeras and later organized and coordinated bus trips for the Senior Citizen Center. She was preceded in death by her granddaughter, Mindy Martinez; her parents, Francisco Ramirez and Maria Figueroa; and seven sisters and brothers: Martha Viego, Pura Ramirez, Guadalupe Garcia, Rosa Palomino, Mary Munoz, and Pete and Ralph Ramirez. Survivors include eight children: David Christel, Carlos Fran, Rosie Pete Apolinar, Mary Jane Rojelio Martinez, Richard Susie, Frank Rita, Terri John Elizondo, and Tommy Alice; brother, Albert "Beto" Ramirez, of San Bernardino; 35 grandchildren; 56 great-grandchildren; nine great, great-grandchildren and countless friends and extended family. The viewing will be at Dellcrest Funeral Home, 2023 S.W.W. White Road, from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, January 7 with a Rosary at 7 p.m. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, January 8 at St. Benedict Catholic Church, 4535 Lord Road, with burial to follow at Holy Cross Cemetery, 17501 Nacogdoches Road. Following the burial, a reception will be held at 2 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Hall, 16075 North Evans Road, Selma Tx. The family would like to thank Deacon Juan Espinoza with Interim Health Care, for his care and concern, and the nurses and staff at Interim.

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Lucy R. Gonzalez

May 18, 1924 - January 2, 2015