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Leonarda Torres SOTO
1926 - 2017
Leonarda Torres SOTO
1926 - 2017
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BORN
1926
DIED
2017
Leonarda SOTO Obituary
On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 our mother Leonarda (Naya) Soto passed away peacefully in Coalinga, California, at the age of 90 years old. She was born in Laredo, Texas on October 22, 1926, to Matilde and Rosa Torres. In 1948 she married Geronimo Soto Sr. In the early 50’s along with her husband and 3 daughters, they left Texas and relocated to Huron, California. Our mother and father were blessed with 5 more children. In 1964 at the age of 36, our mother became a widow, when our father passed at the age of 43, leaving her with 8 children.
Our mother was a strong, loving, independent, hard working woman who worked to provide for her children, retiring after 10 years as a cafeteria worker at the Coalinga Sunset Elementary.
Our mother helped raise and care for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She enjoyed watching the Spanish soap operas, reading and visiting with friends.
She is survived by her seven children and their spouses, Jennie Vargas, Susie and Frank Lopez, Rosie and Ronald Newton, Geronimo and Wendy Soto, Sara and Jim Bland, Bertha Lopez, and Hilda and Tom Crawford, 23 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild and one sister Maria Romo.
She was preceded in death by her husband Geronimo Soto Sr., son Noe Soto, granddaughter Carolyn Trinidad, son-in-law’s Gilbert Vargas and Joe Lopez and Sister Guadalupe Rodriguez.
Services will be held on Friday, April 7, 2017 at St. Paul’s Catholic Church; 637 Sunset St., Coalinga, with the Reciting of the Rosary at 10:00 a.m. and Funeral Mass at 11:00 a.m., Inurnment immediately following at Coalinga-Huron Cemetery; 40054 Calaveras Ave., Coalinga, CA.
Family and Friends are invited to view Naya’s legacy at www.coalingachapel.com and send condolences to the family.
Services by Palm Memorial Coalinga Chapel (559) 935-3338.
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Raquel Hug
April 6, 2017
My Deepest Condolences to all of your family.
I will forever have fond memories of you. I feel like our family's practically grew up together; playing as children and then growing up with each other. You and my Mama were close and as you grew older were company for each other, it was pretty to see the relationship you all three had, including Teya Yanez. Dios te Tenga en Paz Naya.
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Velma & Gary Onstott
April 6, 2017
Our sincere and heart felt condolences to the family, for their loss of their beautiful Mother. She was the strength, the warm loving heart and the one with the guidance in your lives...I remember first meeting her and spending a little time with her, she was so kind and sweet and she welcomed me into her family, like I was a part of her family. She raised a beautiful lady, who I call my best friend, Susie and for that I am ever so grateful. Rest in Peace, sweet lady, Naya, God's sweet Angels have called you home.
Moreno fam.
March 21, 2017
Our sympathy to the torres soto family. We enjoyed our visit with naya in july. Our mom is first cousin to naya. May she be in gods hands.
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