Obituaries

With a warm heart and a profound sense of gratitude, I am pleased to inform you that our beloved mother, Ernestina Hagy (Valenzuela), has peacefully joined the Lord today, July 20, at 3:08 p.m. We find solace in knowing that she has found eternal happiness in the embrace of our Heavenly Father. Ernestina lived a life filled with love, compassion, and kindness, and her presence brought immense joy to all who knew her. She touched our lives in countless ways, and her memory will forever be cherished.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 22, 2023, at 11 a.m. in Evangeline Memorial Gardens Chapel in Carencro, Louisiana for Emma Valenzuela, age 80, the former Emma Velasquez, who passed away Friday, July 14, 2023 at Lafayette General Medical Center. 
Interment will be in Evangeline Memorial Gardens in Carencro. Pastor Randy Duhon of Church of Christ will officiate at the services. 
Musical selections will be The Old Rugged Cross and How Great Thou Art. Recessional song will be performed by Armando Valenzuela. 

Our beautiful baby girl, Gabriella Navarrete (Gabby, Ella), 18 young years of age, of Weatherford, was tragically taken on July 4, in Fort Worth. 

Marylou Carrasco Benavides, 64, of Fort Stockton, passed away on Tuesday, June 27, in Fort Stockton. 

Prayer Service was held on Sunday, July 2 at 6 p.m. by Pastor Jesus Guevara and Rosary recited at 7p.m. at Eternity Funeral Home Chapel. 

Funeral Service was held on Monday, July 3 at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish – St. Joseph Catholic Church, with Father Fransis Njoku officiating. Burial followed at the St. Joseph Fort Stockton Catholic Cemetery. Arrangements are entrusted to Eternity Funeral Home. 

It is with great sadness that the family of Senaida Ureta González announce her death after a rapid battle with cancer, on June 27, 2023, in Kingsland, Texas. Known as “Nana” by most of her family, she was 88, and died peacefully with members of her family by her side. She was a native of Fort Stockton, Texas, and daughter of Cosme Damian Urueta (Ureta) and Josefina García Ureta.

It is with great sadness and extremely heavy hearts that we say goodbye to Gabriella (Gabby) Allyse Rodriguez, beloved mother, daughter, fiancée, friend and her unborn son, Ezekiel Nathaniel Rodriguez Gonzalez.

Gabby was born March 16, 1996 in Del Rio, Texas to parents Lupita Celaya and Roy Oscar Rodriguez.

Jesus R. Bustos, 85 of Fort Stockton, Texas passed away on June 26, 2023, in Fort Stockton.

Rosemarie Gonzalez Ybarra, 62, a beloved mother, wife, daughter, grandmother, sister, and friend, passed into her eternal life in heaven on June 19, 2023, in Bryan-College Station, Texas. She was born on April 4, 1961, to Baldomero C. Gonzalez and Estefana Bustos Barrera in Sanderson, Texas.

Senon Garcia Gonzales, 86 years old of Fort Stockton, passed away peacefully with his Family by his side on June 21, 2023, in Midland. Funeral services took place at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church on Monday June 26, 2023, at 10 a.m. in Fort Stockton with Father Francis Njoku officiating. Burial followed at St. Joseph’s Cemetery. Arrangements were entrusted to Martinez Funeral Home and Crematory from Odessa, Texas.