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                           OA Online Obituaries.
                                      
                              January 30, 2001
                                      
                          Permian Basin Obituaries
                                      
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                         [INLINE] Albino Aranda III
                                      
   ODESSA Albino Aranda III, 19, of Odessa died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2001,
                        at Medical Center Hospital.
       He was born Jan. 31, 1981, in Odessa. He was a student. He was
                                 Catholic.
   Mass will be celebrated at 2 p.m. today, Jan. 30, 2001, at St. Joseph
   Catholic Church with the Rev. Gilbert Rodriguez officiating. Interment
   will be at Rose Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 1:30
                p.m. today at Martinez Funeral Home Chapel.
          He was preceded in death by his mother, Anita Rodriguez.
   Survivors include his father, Albino Aranda Jr. of Odessa; stepmother,
      Maria Aranda of Odessa; grandparents, Albino Aranda Sr., Alfredo
    Rodriguez and Eva Rodriguez, all of Odessa; sisters, Marisol Spencer
    and Eve Aranda, both of Odessa; stepsister, Andrea Davila of Odessa;
                and stepbrother, Abelardo Davila of Odessa.
                   Arrangements by Martinez Funeral Home.
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                           Norberto S. Rivera Sr.
                                      
   ODESSA Norberto S. Rivera Sr., age 74, died Friday, Jan. 26, 2001, at
                          Medical Center Hospital.
    He was born June 15, 1926, in Zaragoza, Coah., Mexico, to Pablo and
    Maria Rivera. He was raised in Zaragoza, moving to Doole in 1960. He
    came to Odessa in 1982. Mr. Rivera was a farmer most of his life but
      became a groundskeeper at Permian High School, retiring in 1995.
    Mr. Rivera is survived by two sons, Norberto Rivera Jr. of Mansfield
     and Jose Alfredo Rivera of Odessa; two daughters, Janie Chavez and
    Irma Yolanda Cardenas, both of Odessa; three brothers, Pablo Rivera
   and Uvaldo Rivera, both of Olton, and Rodolfo Rivera of Zaragoza; two
   sisters, Estella Valdez of Odessa and Elvira Villarreal of Eagle Pass;
   nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and
                                  nephews.
    There will be no funeral services locally. Funeral services will be
     held this week in Zaragoza with interment to follow at Cemen-terio
                             Pancho Municipal.
           Arrangements are by Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors.
                          (www.wilsonfuneral.com)
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