Marion County GaArchives Obituaries.....Garcia, Luz Mercado Ponce December 10, 2010 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jean Frost http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006103 November 5, 2011, 9:13 pm Tante Funeral Home December 2010 TANTE FUNERAL home 1052 Dr. Deryl Hart Road – P.O. Box 382 Buena Vista, GA 31803 Phone (229)649-2478 Fax (229)649-2446 Luz Mercado Ponce Garcia, age 89, of Box Springs, formerly of New York, died on Friday, December 10, 2010 at Stewart Webster Hospital in Richland, Georgia. Funeral services were held at 2:00 PM on Monday, December 13, 2010, in the Chapel of Tante Funeral Home with Reverend Greg Lowery officiating. Burial followed in Brown Springs Church of God Cemetery. The family received friends at the funeral home on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Garcia was born July 28, 1921, in Isabella, Puerto Rico, to Juan and Carmen Delvalle Mercado. She was a homemaker and enjoyed cooking and sewing. She also loved taking care of children and keeping a beautiful home. Coming from New York, she had been living in Box Springs for the past 5 years. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Luis Ponce, Sr. and Pablo Garcia, by two sons, Oscar Ponce and Martin Ponce, and by two brothers, Esteban Mercado. She is survived by three sons, Luis R. Ponce, Jr. of PA, Angel Luis Ponce of FL, and Edwin Ponce of IL; two daughters, Amanda Ponce Arce of GA and Brunilda P. Cortes of NY; two brothers, Juan Mercado of FL and Gregorio Mercado of Puerto Rico; and by four sisters Carmen Quijino and Rosa Santiago of Puerto Rico and Antonia Vega and Lydia Delgado, both of FL. Several grandchildren and great grandchildren also survive. Tante Funeral Home of Buena Vista was in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/marion/obits/g/garcia10177gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb