Obituary

Funeral Mass for Jenaro Zapata, 72, of McAllen, will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church with the Rev. Gerard Kenney, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park by Lemons Funeral Home. Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. today in Lemons Memorial Chapel. Mr. Zapata died at 5 a.m. Sunday, May 26, 2002, at his residence in McAllen. He was born Sept. 19, 1929, in Hondo. He moved to Plainview in the 1960s and to McAllen in 1992. On Aug. 19, 1949, he married Mercedes Baltierez in Saginaw, Mich. She died Nov. 5, 1991. Survivors include nine daughters, Janie Fuentes of McAllen, Violanda Trevino of Red Oaks, Sibia Dominguez of DeSoto, Melissa Ramos of Cedar Hills and Petra Cavazos, Alicia Zapata, Gracia Vera, Merlinda Castillo and Sandra Zapata of Plainview; four sisters, Vicki Rendon of Lockney, Sophia Vela of Eagle Pass and Antonio de la Cruz and Ramona Moreno, both of Plainview; 35 grandchildren; and 37 great-grandchildren.
Plainview Daily Herald - May 29, 2002