Obituary

Rosary for Tillie Quintero Garcia, 75, of Lubbock will be 7 p.m. today at Calvillo Funeral Home Chapel. Funeral mass will be 11 a.m. Friday at St. Isidore Catholic Church with Father Jacob Puthuparambil officiating. Burial will be at Abernathy Cemetery under the direction of Calvillo Funeral Home.

Tillie passed away Monday. She was born on Feb. 28, 1933, in Karnes City and adopted by Rufas and Maria Martinez. She married her first husband the late Albert Pierson(1968) in 1952. She then married the late Frank Garcia(2005) in 1972 in Lubbock. She moved to Colorado in 1993 from Abernathy. She was a homemaker and a Catholic.

She is preceded in death by five sons, Albert, Rufus, Jerry, Frankie, and Edward Pierson.

Survivors include four sons, Carlos "Charles" Pierson of Lubbock, Johnny Jewell of Denver, Colo., Robert Jewell of Oklahoma City, Okla.,and Rene Martinez of Hale Center; two daughters, Mary Pierson of Lakewood, Colo., and Yolanda Loya of Lakewood, Colo.; 19 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.