San Joaquin County CA Archives Obituaries.....Leyva , Amelia  October 5, 2005
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The Tracy Press
Amelia Leyva 

July 2, 1917 — Oct. 5, 2005

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday for Tracy homemaker 
Amelia Leyva, 88, who died Wednesday at Sutter Tracy Community Hospital.

Born in Santa Rosalia, Baja California South, Mexico, Mrs. Leyva lived in 
various places over the years in order to be with her children, and recently 
returned to Tracy.

Mrs. Leyva enjoyed singing, knitting and crocheting. She liked to travel, read 
and watch Mexican soap operas. 

A parishioner of the Catholic church, she was an avid Los Angeles Dodgers fan 
and loved spending time with her family. She will be remembered as a loving 
mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend to many.

Mrs. Leyva is survived by her children, Genovevo Leyva, and his wife, Maria, 
of Tracy, Alicia Castro, and her husband, Arturo, Ana Higuera, and her 
husband, Miguel, all of Salinas, and Juan Leyva, and his wife, Feliza, of 
Calexico; siblings, Vicenta Garcia, Juana Rivera and Francisco Nunez, all of 
Mexicali, Mexico; 

18 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and 
numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Juan Leyva.

Tuesday’s Mass will begin at 10 a.m. at St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, 163 W. 
Eaton Ave. Visitation will be observed from 1 to 7 p.m. Monday at Fry Memorial 
Chapel, 550 S. Central Ave, with a rosary to follow at the chapel. Interment 
will be in Tracy Cemetery.

Published on Saturday, October 8, 2005, in the Tracy Press. 


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