Carmen Juarez Maldonado

Carmen Juaréz de Maldonado gained her angel wings on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. She was 92 years old. She passed away in her home in Sylmar, California, due to her advanced age, and aged related causes. The last year of her life she had begun to battle Alzheimer’s. She went peacefully in her sleep, and has joined her husband of 69 years, Angel González Maldonado, in heaven. She was a devout Catholic and will also be greeted in heaven by God, Jesus, and her Virgen de Guadalupe.

Services have been scheduled as follows:

Viewing: Monday, April 1 – 5-9 P.M. at Eternal Valley Memorial Park & Mortuary, 23287 Sierra Hwy., Newhall, CA 91321

Funeral Mass: Tuesday, April 2 – 10:00 A.M. at Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic Church, 668 S Workman St, San Fernando, CA 91340. Interment will follow mass at Eternal Valley Memorial Park & Mortuary.

Carmen was born on Saturday, April 18, 1931, to Guadalupe and Marcial Juaréz in Arteaga, Michoacán, Mexico. She met Angel in her late teens in Arteaga, and they married on April 23, 1955, after a long courtship. Together with their six children, they moved to the United States in the summer of 1968. Their seventh child was born in 1969. She lived in the San Fernando Valley for the rest of her life.

Carmen was a loving stay at home mother and homemaker until after her youngest child went off to kindergarten. She then went to work to help support the family. She retired in her early sixties and became the loving grandmother that helped take care of her grandchildren. She liked to crochet and needlepoint, and she loved her garden. She liked to dig her hands into the dirt, and did it into her nineties, even after she could no longer get down to the ground. Even then she gardened as long as she could sit on a chair, bending down, with a spade, gardening shears, or rake in her hands.

Carmen was predeceased by both her parents, her husband, and two of her siblings.

She leaves behind her seven children, Miguel Angel, María Laura, Irma, María del Carmen, Adriana, José Alberto, and Jaime and her 12 grandchildren, Michael, James, Andrew, Christopher, Amber, Matthew, Taylor, David, Metzti, Cintlalli, Elias, and Zachary, and future generations of the Maldonado Juaréz family that unfortunately will not have the pleasure of meeting her, as well as other extended family members. She was a kind, loving, and thoughtful mother, and grandmother and beloved to all who knew her. We were lucky to have her in our lives as long as we did. We will feel her absence, and will forever cherish the memories we made with her.

For those who are so inclined, in lieu of flowers, donations in her honor can be made to the Alzheimer's Association.

The family of Carmen Juaréz Maldonado wishes to extend our sincerest thanks to the doctors, nurses, and other care providers from Providence Hospice, Los Angeles County, who assisted with her care during the last months of her life.