Violeta I. Conde

Violeta Iballa Conde, age 75, peacefully went to be with the Lord. She tragically drowned in her swimming pool on Wednesday, June 16. After barely clinging to life since the drowning, her last breaths were on July 3, surrounded by her loving family.

Violeta devoted her life to helping others, both professionally and within her family. Her love of helping others led her to choose a career in nursing. She received her Registered Nursing degree from Bacolod Provincia Hospital in Bacolod, Philippines. She first worked in Vancouver, Canada. Later, she helped her husband, Arthur, with his busy private practice. She was nurse, receptionist, and office manager. Though busy with her professional life, she never lost her main focus of loving and raising her three children and caring for her family.. Violeta was a parishoner at St. Bartholomew's Catholic Church in Katy, Texas.

Violeta is preceded in death by her father, Pedro Iballa, and mother, Narcisa Rilliona, along with her sister, Thelma Navarro, and first-born grandson, Christopher Conde Martinez. She is survived by her husband, Arthur Conde; loving sisters, Lydia, Gloria, and Ligaya; son Allan and wife Kim; daughter Michelle and husband Stephen; daughter Sofia and husband David; grandchildren Renee, Brock, and Anabelle Conde; William and Daniel Martinez; Joshua and Cristian Im; and many loving relatives in California and the Philippines.

The Visitation will be held at Memorial Oaks Funeral Home on July 8, 2010 from 5- 8pm with a 6:30 pm Rosary. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Houston Hospice in Violeta Conde's name.