Martha Garcia

Martha Garcia, 74, died peacefully in her home on February 4, 2025, surrounded by four generations of her loving family. She was predeceased by her husband of 40 years, Rafael ‘Lito’ Garcia.

Martha was born in Santiago de Maria, Usulutan, El Salvador on March 19, 1950 to Sofia Cortez and Raul Ernesto Aguirre. Santiago de Maria was and is a magical town of coffee and volcanoes. In her youth, Martha loved to play basketball, run, dance, and have fun. She then attended business school. 

In her early twenties Martha moved to Brooklyn, New York where she had her first daughter, Linda. Martha moved to New Jersey where she married Rafael Garcia, and had her youngest daughter, Liza. For many years she worked for Ralph Lauren and Polo. Finally she and Lito moved to the beautiful green town of Asheboro.

Martha was friendly, kind, forgiving, and never shy to speak her mind. She loved children, both hers and those she worked with. She was the most responsible mother and grandmother. Her greatest recent joy was her first great-grandson, Hendrix Boone. 

Martha is survived by her 95-year-young mother Sophia Soto, who Martha cared for with so much love, her sisters Yolanda Rosales and Reina Arias, her brother Jorge Cortez, her daughters Linda Alayo, Liza Garcia, and Lisette Companioni, her grandchildren Marlon Boone Jr., Jonathan and Jolissa Belle, Randall and Sophia Staten, Kathy and Angel Garcia, her great-grandson Hendrix, and countless cousins, aunts, uncles and cherished friends.

A funeral mass will be held on Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 10:00 am at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church with Father Philip Kollithanath officiating. The family will receive friends following the mass at Pugh Funeral Home in Asheboro.