She was born on May 29, 1934 in Cayey, Puerto Rico, a daughter to the late Luis Vazquez Garced and Orfilia Melendez Vazquez.
After, Maria completed high school, she went on to study and become a Hair Stylist studying in the US and Europe. She enjoyed raising her children and caring for her family. Maria loved her children and children’s spouses, and Tom was known to give her the biggest laughs! Being a grandmother and great grandmother was a special blessing to her too. She would testify and live in such a way to exalt God in her life. Her relationship to her creator who sought her was dearest to her. She came to know Christ as her personal Lord and Savior in 1967 while in Germany during her husband’s European military tour. Her relationship to God resulted in her immediate family, grandchildren, members of her extended family and friends coming to Christ. God’s entrance into the Vazquez family resulted in Maria and her husband serving in missionary work and prompted her children to pursue theological studies, overseas missionary work, and pastoring.
Maria is survived by her three children, Maria Nahlen and her husband, Tom; Victor Jr. Vazquez and his wife, Debra, Carlos “Charlie” Vazquez and his wife, Ellen; eleven grandchildren: Christopher, Danielle, Maria, Victoria, Bennett, Elizabeth, Lucas and Marisa Vazquez, Benjamin, Jonathan and Anna Nahlen; four great grandchildren, McKenzie, Daniel, Athena and Wyatt Nahlen; and many beloved nieces, nephews, and friends.
In addition to her parents, Maria was preceded in death by her beloved husband of over 31 years, Victor Rafael Vazquez, Sr. and grandparents, Modesto Melendez Arroyo and Josefa Ayala Rivera.
Private services will be held and no flowers by request, donations may be made in her memory to Brush Arbor Baptist Church in Orlando, Florida.
The family of Mrs. Vazquez have entrusted her arrangement’s to Baldwin Fairchild Funeral Home, Oviedo, Florida. She will be laid to rest with her husband at the Oviedo Methodist Cemetery in Oviedo, Florida.
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