Obit of Costilla, Apolonia "Paula" - Texas County, Oklahoma

Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their
obits to the USGenWeb Archives.
Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/                    22 Jan 2006
Return to Texas County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/texas/texas.html
==========================================================================
                             USGENWEB NOTICE
                     Copyright.  All rights reserved.
             http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
==========================================================================
::Elmhurst Cemetery--Guymon OK

Amarillo Globe News 11 Dec 1998

Apolonia Costilla

GUYMON, Okla. - Apolonia "Paula" Costilla, 92, died Thursday, April 9, 
1998.

Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Sunday in Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home 
Chapel. Mass of Christian burial will be at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Peter's 
Catholic Church with the Rev. Scott Adams officiating. Burial will be in 

Elmhurst Cemetery.
Mrs. Costilla was born in Iyende Quiulla, Mexico. She owned and operated 
the Acapulco Restaurant in Levelland, Texas, for several years before 
retiring in 1966. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Peter's Catholic 
Church.

She moved from Levelland to Guymon in 1967.

She married Gabino R. Costilla in 1920 at Del Rio, Texas. He died in 1950. She also was preceded in death by a son, Guilde Costilla, and a daughter, 

Ninfia Costilla.
Survivors include two daughters, Margie Olivas of Hugoton, Kan., and Mary 
Barrientes of Johnson City, Texas; four sons, Juan Costilla of Ravenna, 
Ohio, and Vincent Costilla, Raul Costilla and Manuel Costilla, all of 
Guymon; two brothers, Manuel Torres and Salvador Torres, both of Del Rio; 
38 grandchildren; 83 greatgrandchildren; and 14 great-great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to St. Peter's Catholic Church. Memorials 
will be accepted at the church office or Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home, P.O. 
Box 1112, Guymon, Okla., 73942.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Return to Texas County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/texas/texas.html