Remembering you🌹💞 I know you both are finally together

A special lady y una grandiosa amiga. RIP Gloria. 

Carl and Norma Mir family

Thank you for always spreading your joy at the Cofradia.  I will miss your smile and your know the angels in heaven are happy to have you with them and Our Lord🙏

"En la tierra hay distancias no así en la eternidad, reunidas para siempre"

Con todo nuestro cariño y siempre en nuestro recuerdo.

Luis, Roy, Yago & Yolanda

Family and close friends defined Gloria’s life.  Always loving, generous, attentive, and willing to help.   We had many chats at her dinette table.   A woman of God, she will be missed by all who knew her.   She is now reunited with loved ones who procedes her in death and she missed dearly.   From the Heavens she shall watch over us, and if you listen carefully, you might just hear her whisper sweet words of encouragement in you ear.   May she Rest In Peace.

Mi querida madrina, como te voy a extrañar! 
fuiste un ser muy  especial en mi vida; dulce, atenta, amorosa, siempre presente a pesar de las distancia.  Me siento muy afortunada de ser tu ahijada, viviras en mi corazon por siempre. ♥️♥️

Tu Deanie y Colie. They love and miss you so much.

Mi abuelita bella! One of my best friends in the world. I will miss you enormously. Thank you for all that you taught me in word and deed. Give Bisa, Biso, and Abuelito a big hug for me. I love you forever.

Sienita! So happy you got to meet her and enjoy her cuddles.

Tu Deanie y Colie. They love you and miss you so much.

My dear Abuelita! One of my best friends in the whole world. I will miss you enormously.  Thank you for all that you taught me in word and deed. Give Bisa, Biso, and Abuelito a big hug for me. I love you forever.

Quoting my sister Alina on mom’s portrait photo:
“She’s so beautiful;  like she was . Me encanta.”
With her kind eyes, full of wisdom and lessons learned: one of the happiest days of her life . In pink to welcome one of her greatest blessings! With the sweetest smile and best of attitudes in spite of her recent diagnoses.  Like the velveteen rabbit, old and tattered with little hair and even more wrinkles, indicating a long life well lived . 
Forget the Botox and the enhancers. This is beauty at its finest.”

We are so sorry at the death of your deal mother Gloria. My mother Marta Alvarez Rodriguez and Gloria were friends since Cuba having both gone to "Baldor" together. My mother died in 1998 at the age of 66. Your mother and I stayed in communication for the past 25 years. We visited you all at your parents  house in Downey in 2002 to an incredible celebration with all of you at your parents backyard.  I will never forget the kindness and memories that we shared. Your mother and father also visited us in Massachusetts many years ago. Your mother and I stayed in touch via Facebook messenger over the past years and shared many  memoriesand family events. Our last correspondence was in late August when she wrote to me via messenger. I wrote back to her several times these past few weeks and saw that your mother had not seen my messages and was not responding back to me which she usually did within minutes. We worried about her and unfortunately today I saw that she had passed away on December 16.  She is now reunited with your dear father who she mentioned so much to me on how much se missed him and also my dear mother, her friend who she knew since they were both young girls in Cuba. I hope they are all enjoying eternal life together. We are profoundly saddened and I will miss our communications but the memories will last forever until I meet them all in heaven.
Hugs
Juan Carlos Alvarez
My cell # 603-418-5676. We now live in New Hampshire.

Gracias Mamita querida por tu amor grande,  puro, dulce, valiente, desinteresado,  tierno y sublime. 

Esta, nuestra ultima foto, capta nuestro amor único, auténtico, angelical y primoroso.  

Doy gracias a Dios por ti y por envolvernos en su Amor infinito siempre;  por su plan perfecto para nosotros.  

Descansa en paz Mamá querida, en la compañía de los ángeles y la Virgen Santísima. 

Te extrañare para siempre y vives en mi, en lo más hondo de mi alma, en los más mínimos detalles y grandes pinceladas de mi existencia.

My beautiful, wonderful, resilient, mother aka Bonita Guerrera Fuerte Valiente, on September 4, 2023 at 89 years, thank you for you unconditional love and a lifetime of sacrifices, you will live within me forever.  😘

OBITUARY

Gloria Mendez

March 16, 1934 – December 16, 2023

Miller Mies Downey Mortuary

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