OBIT-Bernabe Perez

LA JOYA – Bernabe Perez, 85, passed away on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015, in La Joya.

Mr. Perez was born in Los Aldamas, N. L., Mex. on Jan. 20, 1930, to Luz and Santos Perez.

Survivors include his wife, Delfina Perez; children, Divina Flores, Irma Guerra, Guadalupe De Anda, Maria del Roble Cantu, Jesus Perez, Damiana Garcia, Abraham Perez and San Juanita Vera; siblings, Maria de la Luz Garza, Genovevo Perez, Leonor Hinojosa, Odilia Salinas, Lorenzo Perez, Alfredo Perez, Elida Garcia, and Maria Guadalupe Perez; and 18 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers, Eleuterio Perez and Seferino Perez.

A funeral mass will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 4, at 10 a.m. at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Peñitas. Burial follows at Lord and I Cemetery in Palmview.