Margarita Velez

DOB 10-17-1931

PASSED 10-16-2020

BIRTH PLACE CIALES, PR

MOTHER-CARMEN RUIZ RETAMAL

FATHER-INOCENCIO MONTALVO

SURVIVING SIBLINGS:

RENE RIVERA RUIZ-HOLLYWOOD, FL

JOSE E RIVERA-PR

EDWARDO MIRANDA RUIZ-NJ

ALICIA RIVERA RUIZ-PR

LUZ RIVERA RUIZ-FL

GLORIA E. RIVERA-PR

DEAR CLOSE FRIEND, DON HERNAN, WHOM WAS ALWAYS MAKING SURE SHE WAS OK.

WE THANK HIM FOR HIS CARE FOR HER.

HIGHEST LEVEL EDUCATION JR. HIGH PR

MOSTLY SELF TAUGHT & BY THOSE WHOM SHARED HER UPBRINGING.

MARRIED IN PR TO THE FATHER OF BOTH HER SURVIVING CHILDREN:

HECTOR MANUEL SERRANO & EDWIN GILBERTO SERRANO.

MOVED TO NEW JERSEY WITH BOTH HER CHILDREN IN THE 1960’S

WHERE SHE WORKED AS A SEAMSTRESS AND OTHER MANEGMENT POSITION WITH THE KAROWARE CO.THERE SHE HIRED HER SON HECTOR, SHE WAS HIS SUPERVISOR AND THAT’S HOW SHE GOT HER NICKNAME; “LA FORLADY”

SHE WORKED VERY HARD TO MAKE SURE BOTH HER CHILDREN WERE WELL FEED, CLOTHED AND EDUCATED.

MAMA ALWAYS HAD A BEAUTIFUL SMILE, A BIG HUG AND SHE WAS FULL OF SURPRISES FOR HER FAMILY AND ALL OF HER FRIENDS WHOM ALWAYS SURROUNDED HER. HER GRAND ENTIRE FAMILY AND FRIENDS WILL MISS HER IMMENSELY.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY NIECE SARITA RIVERA AND MANY MORE LOVED NIECES, NEPHEWS, GREAT NIECES AND GREAT NEPHEWS, FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, HECTOR M. SERRANO III, DANIEL FRANCISCO SERRANO, ANTHONY MICHAEL SERRANO AND KATIE SERRANO; SEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, NATALIA ELISE SERRANO, ABIGAIL ROSE SERRANO, ISABELLA GRACE SERRANO AND AUSTIN JAMES SERRANO. AND ONE ON THE WAY. (THE ONE THAT MAKES OUR CIRCLE COMPLETE, SHE WILL MEET IN HEAVEN, GOD WILLING.