Obituary of GERONIMO TORREZ, 1997, Ashley County, Arkansas

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        Date: 16 Aug 2001
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From 9 July 1997 issue of "The Ashley News Observer," Crosset (Ashley County) Arkansas:

GERONIMO TORREZ
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  A funeral mass for Geronimo Ballesa Torrez, 45, of Crossett was held
Thursday, July 3, at 6 p.m. in the chapel of Jones Funeral Home with Father
Vic Subb officiating.  Burial is Wednesday, July 9, in the progresso
Cemetery in Progresso San Luis Potosi, Mexico under the direction of Jones
Funeral Home of Hamburg.
  Mr. Torrez died Saturday, June 28.
  He was a native of Mexico, a resident of Crossett for the past three
months and a reisdent of Hamburg for the past six years.  He worked at the
Ashley County Recycling Center and was a Catholic.
  Survivors include his wife, Juana Gutierrez Ballesa; one son, Damas
Ballesa; one daughter, Lupe Ballesa; mother, Marie Torrez, all of
Progresso; and one uncle, Luis Ballesa of Bernice, La.