Maria Villegas

Funeral Mass for Maria Villegas, 73, of Rusk, will be at 10 a.m., Wednesday, March 21, 2007, at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Jacksonville, with Father Mark Kusmerik officiating, under the direction of Autry Funeral Home in Jacksonville.

Burial will be at Meador Cemetery.

Mrs. Villegas died Monday, March 19, 2007, in Tyler. She was born Sept. 4, 1933, in Chamacuaro-GTO, Mexico. She worked at Thomas Sparkman Dairy and was a homemaker. She was a member of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church.

Survivors include her husband, Jose Villegas of Rusk; three sons, Rafael Villegas of Rusk; Jose Louis Villegas of Jacksonville; Ole Jario Villegas of Atlanta, Ga.; six daughters, Blanca Bences of Nacogdoches; Angela Cervantes of Chicago, Ill.; Leticia Villegas of Rusk; Ofira Guerrero of Jacksonville; Antonia Henderson Villegas of Bullard; Lupita Manujano of Rusk; 40 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, three brothers, Ruben Mandujano of Chicago; Miguel Mandujano of Mexico and Javier Mandujano of Mexico and sister, Trancito Mandujano Lopez of Mexico.

Rosary will begin at 7 p.m., today.
 

Information from The Jacksonville Daily Progress