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Sweetwater Reporter
Friday, April 17, 2009
RUBEN HERRERA
RUBEN HERRERA
Ruben Herrera, 43, father, husband, son, brother and
friend to many. Ruben was a man of principle and moral
values who stood for what was right and fair. He was born
into a family strong in their culture and work ethics with a
devout reverence for their Catholic-
faith. His father Sixto embodied the
American dream of creating a life of
opportunity for his family in an effort
to secure their future. His mother
Catalina nurtured and molded the lives
of their 10 children with a strong faith
and steady presence. He was born
Oct. 17, 1965 in Sweetwater to Sixto
Quintana Herrera and Catalina
Marquez Herrera. He was the eighth
of 10 children and the third of four
sons. He spent his early childhood
playing witn his siblings and many
cousins. He learned how to work at a
young age, while farming with his
father and brothers. When he started
school at the age of five, he spoke only
Spanish, but with the help of older siblings and teachers,
he learned English quickly. As a youth he was involved in
Boys Club and had many fun stories and memories about
trips and events with his friends and George Parks. Ik-
played softball and football in Junior High and went to
Austria with the band during High School. He was varsity-
center for the Roscoe Plowboys from 1980 to 1984 and
received many football honors during his high school
years.
After graduating from High School he went to college at
Western Texas College in Snyder and then Angelo State
University where he graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor in
Business Administration. He married Jonna Rodgers
Herrera on March 15,1997, in Las Vegas, Nev. He has been
a member of Saint Albert's Catholic Church his entire life
and served as president of the church council for many
years. He was a school board member for Roscoe ISO for
three years and was very supportive of the community
youth. He had a successful trucking company with his
partner and brother Michael. He took great pride in know-
ing they were responsible for providing support to many
drivers and their families. His loyalty and honor for his
mother was shown each day with his providing for her well
being. He had the joy and blessing of having four beautiful,
precious children, Daniel 18 years old, Mia 11 years old,
John Ruben 7 years old and Layla 4 years old. He passed on
to his children his love of horses and the outdoors, Un-
importance of the brother and sister bond and to always
finish what you start and to never ever quit.
Throughout the last 2.5 years of Ruben's life, the process
of dealing with his illness, he never lost sight of the neces-
sity and absolute power of faith in God and the grace he
shows us each and every day, allowing us to have life. His
spirit and fierce determination to never quit and never let
this disease take his passion for life is an example to all
who knew him. He often stated there was one memory he
always carried with him and lived by each day. As a teenag-
er Coach Young told him "to never ever quit anything you
start, always see it though to the end, NO MATTER
WHAT." His lion’s heart saw him through to the end of his
journey and he never ever quit.
Survivors include his wile, Jonna Herrera; two daugh-
ters, Mia Herrera and Layla Herrera; two sons, Daniel
Herrera and John Ruben Herrera, all of Roscoe; his moth-
er, Catalina Herrera of Roscoe; sisters, Lorina Hoffman of
Marion, Juanita and husband Lano DeLeon of Sweetwater,
Yolanda and husband Johnny Gonzalez of Sweetwater,
Nilda DeLaCruz and husband Tommy Davila of Abilene,
Diana and husband Raymond Reyes of Monahans and
Sandra Herrera of Sweetwater; brothers, Henry Herrera
and wife Gloria of Sweetwater, Edward Herrera and wife
Claudia of Harlingen and Michael Herrera and wife
Stephanie of Roscoe.
He was preceded in death by his father, Sixto Quintana
Herrera.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to an education
fund for Mia, John Ruben and Layla Herrera. These gifts
can be sent to Jonna Herrera, P.O. Box 123 Roscoe, Texas
79545.
Rosary and visitation will be 7 p.m. Friday, April 17,
2009, at McCoy Funeral Home Chapel of Memories. Holy
Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a.in. Saturday April 18,
2009, at Immaculate Heart Of Mary Catholic Church with
Father Michael Rodriguez officiating. Burial will follow in
Roscoe Cemetery under the care and direction of McCov
Funeral Home of Sweetwater.
Pallbearers will be Robert Williams, Adolf DeLoera,
Antero Rostro, Frank Young, Montie Hale, Freddy
Martinez, Gaines Price, Benny Cornett and Fabian
Armendariz.
JOE KELLY PACE
FORT WORTH - Joe Kelly Pace, 64, passed away
Wednesday, April 15, 2009, of an abdominal arterial
lesion, unrelated to his ALS.
Memorial service will be held at 10
a.m. Saturday in the sanctuary of First
United Methodist Church, 800 W.
Fifth St., Fort Worth 7O101*.
Should friends desire, memorials
may be given to The ALS Association,
Development Department, 27001
Agoura Road, Calabasas Hill. Calif.
91301, or online at www.ALSA.org.
Joe Kelly Pace was born Feb. ft, 1945,
in Sweetwater and moved with his fam-
ily to Fort Worth in 1957- He graduated
from Arlington Heights High School in
1963 and received a B.S. train Southern
Methodist University in 1967.
Following college he served in the Air
Force Reserves.
JOE NIUEY PACE
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Joe was president of J.C. Pace Holding Company and
Kimbell, Inc., business entities owned and operated by him
and his family.
At the family ranches in Saratoga, Wyo., and Sweetwater,
he was able to fulfill his love for the ranching life and the
cattle industry. His remains will find their final resting
place at these special locations.
Traveling between ranches and business interests, Joe
was able to pursue his passion for flying, having obtained
his pilot's license at the age of 16. Commitment to family
and friends was a high priority in Joe's life. His insights,
humor and common-sense approach drew Joe to a wide
variety of acquaintances and lifelong friends.
His civic and philanthropic activities included serving as
a director, Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show;
member, Western Stock Snow Association of Denver,
Colo.; director, Texas Travel Industry Association; direc-
tor, Southern Region, Boy Scouts of America; director,
Convention and Visitors Bureau of Fort Worth; and a
member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, the Exchange Cluh of
Fort Worth and Jewel Charity Ball.
He received the Chi Rho Award from the YMCA, the
Silver Beaver Award and Silver Antelope Award from Boy
Scouts of America, and the Lifetime Achievement Award
from Texas Travel Industry Association.
Joe also served as chairman of the Challenge for Children
Campaign of Fort Worth Children's Medical Center and
chairman of the Moncrief Radiation Center; president of
Boy Scouts of America - Longhorn Council, Boy Scout
Foundation - Longhorn Council, Fort Worth Children's
Hospital, Big Brothers & Big Sisters, Young Presidents
Organization, Texas Travel Industry Association; vice pres-
ident of Metropolitan YMCA; trustee of Southern
Methodist University and Van Cliburn Foundation; and
hoard member of Fort Worth Symphony, Perkins School of
Theology at SMU and North Texas Commission
Joe was preceded in death bv his mother, Joan Hendrix
Pace.
The family wishes to thank Dr. John Burk, Dr. Chris
Ewin, Dr. Susan Blue, Dr. Gary Alexander and the CVICU
Staff of Baylor All Saints Medical Center.
Survivors include his father, J.C. Pace Jr.; Ann Pace, his
wife of 40 years; children, Alexa Pace Schneider and hus-
band, Jay, J.C. Pace III and wife, Samantha; brother, Garv
Pace and wife, Helen; sister, Margaret Sykes and husband,
David; grandchildren, J.R., Pace and Lane Schneider;
nieces, Leigh Taylor and husband, Jason, Sarah
Lamensdorf and husband, Jonathan, and Jenny Pace and
her daughter, Tabitha.
KIT FOLK
Funeral services for Kit Polk, 75, of Nacogdoches, are sched-
uled for Saturday, April 18, 2009, at 1 p.m. at Sid D. Roberts
Chapel with Rev. Mack 0. Page officiating. Burial will be in
Sand Ridge Cemetery in Nacogdoches under the directions of
Sid Roberts Funeral Home of Nacogdoches.
Visitations will begin on Friday, April 17, 2009, from noon to
8 p.m.
Polk passed away on Saturday, April 11,2009, at Nacogdoches
Medical Center in Nacogdoches. He was born January 9, 1934,
to Jim Polk and Bertha Shears in Nacogdoches.
Survivors include one daughter, Lillian Bell of Vicksburg,
Miss.; five sons, Kenneth Randle, James McCoy, Telmo Bell and
Johnny McCoy, all of Sweetwater and Bill R. Bell of Abilene; one
sister, Delimit McGowan of Cushing; 44 grandchildren; and 71
great-grandchildren.
KATIEWALTON
Funeral services for Katie J. Walton, 72, of Sweetwater, will be
held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 18,2009, at Lamar Street Baptist
Church, with Rev. Jerry Payne officiating. Burial will follow at
Sweetwater Cemetery under the direction of Cate-Spencer &
Trent Funeral Home.
Walton died Thursday, April 16, 2009, at Rolling Plains
Memorial Hospital.
She was born Oct. 18.1936, in Rusk, Texas. She worked as a
hairdresser for many years before retiring. She was a member
of Lamar Street Baptist Church.
Survivors include three sons, Faron Walton and wife Robhie
of Waco; Mark Walton and Sandra Lewis of Sweetwater and
Monte Walton
and wife Lucy of Lubbock; grandchildren, Jeremy, Cody,
Austin,
Katlin, Adan and Katie Walton; great-grandchildren, Lorelei
Walton and
Everet Walton; two brothers, Glen Jones and Charlie Jones,
both of Sweetwater, three sisters, Verla Ratliff of Roscoe, Joy
Jones of Leander and Etta Barnes of Desoto.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James A. (Jimmy)
Walton on May 25, 2006; and four brothers.
Family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday,
April 17,2009 from 6-8 p.m.
Pallbearers will be Dale Finch, Daryl Mulligan, Harold Clegg,
Randy Hanes, Norman Massey and Sam Young.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to American Heart
Association, Attention: Jerrie Gee, P.O. Box 510, Sweetwater,
Texas 79556.
Thousands mourn Sandra Camu
JULIANA BARB ASSA
Associated Press Writer
TRACY, Calif. (AP) — Several thousand people gathered
Thursday to remember an 8-year-old girl who most only knew as a
smiling face on flyers but who many felt close to after the massive
search for her body.
Family members and community leaders recalled Sandra Cantu
as an exuberant, loving second-grader who enjoyed skipping down
the city's streets. Her remains were found last week in a suitcase
pulled from an irrigation pond near her home.
"This little girl, Sandra, in two weeks became much more than a
little girl who lived down the street in a town in California," Tracy
police Chief Janet Thiessen said. "Sandra Cantu became our little
girl, a child whose spirits touched us as we searched for her and
prayed for her safe return."
linages of Sandra graduating from preschool, blowing out birth-
day candles and opening Christinas presents played on two screens
at a high school auditorium, which drew a crowd of about 2,600
people.
An overflow crowd of more than 600 people watched the cere-
mony on a screen in the school's cafeteria and listened to it through
speakers on the football field. Many in attendance wore T-shirts
with the little girl's face.
Sandra's relatives, including her mother, father and sisters, lined
the front row of the auditorium, holding each other and crying at
times.
Sandra's aunt. Angie Chavez, thanked supporters for their help
in the 10-day search for girl, who disappeared March 27, and the
outpouring of sympathy in the days after her body was found.
A local Sunday school teacher whose daughter was a playmate of
Sandra's has been accused ot the killing. Melissa t luckaby, 28. who
lived just a few doors down from Sandra's family, was arraigned
Tuesday on charges that she kidnapped, raped and murdered the
child.
"For this time, lay down your judgment, your bitterness, your
rage, so that our remembrance is done in love and dignity," Tracy
police chaplain Don Higgins told the crowd. "And in so doing, we
can begin to take the first steps ot healing and renewing our
strength together."
Mayor Brent Ives said life would go on in Tracy, a small city 60
miles east of San Francisco, but not as it had before.
'"The community will forever be changed, different," he said.
"Hopefully, very keenly aware of the evil in this world and cautious
and wiser, trusting yet verifying, but definitely stranger as a com-
munity as we watch over one another and one another's children "
Retirement seminar
to be held Saturday
Region XIV Education Service Center and District XIV Texas
Retired Teachers Association (TRTA) are sponsoring a retirement
seminar for all public school employees that intend to retire within
the next five years. This includes administrators, teachers, parapro-
fessionals, cafeteria workers, custodians, bus drivers or any public
sch(X)l employee that pays into the Texas Teacher Retirement System
eras).
The seminar will lx* held on Saturday, April 18, 2009, at Region
XIV Education Service Center in Abilene, located at 1850 Highway
351 (the Albany Highway). Tom Guerin from TRS lias conducted
many of these seminars which includes a power point presentation, a
question and answer session that dws not conclude until all ques-
tions are answered and a packet from 'TRS that will contain all the
information needed to help take some of the anxiety out of going into
retirement.
TRTA presenters will be Tom Pritchard, past president of'TRTA
Reford Schmitt ou, current president of District XIV TRTA Don
Bridges, TRTA lobbyist representing District XIV and Torn Massey
representing AM BA who can give assistance in answering your insur-
ance questions as you plan for retirement.
Registration is from 8:30-9 a.m. Coffee and donuts will be provid-
ed by Region XIV Education Service Center. The seminar begins at 9
a.m. and will conclude no later than 2 p.m.
Lunch will be provided, complements of District XIV TRTA and at
the conclusion of the seminar there will be a drawing for several door
prizes.
This seminar is a "must” for any public school employee consider-
ing retiring in the next five years.
Preregistration js required. Alxmt 150 attendees can be accommo-
dated. To preregister, send name, school district and e-mail or phone
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