I miss you so much, my GraceGrace. 
I wasn't ready for you to go.
You will forever be in my heart. 
Rest in Peace my sweets and soar with the Angels. 
Love you always ..

Graciela Muñoz Rathman Kruger was full of wonderful stories that I will deeply miss.  She was born in Hamford, California to Theodoro Muñoz and Maria Serrano Muñoz, farm workers originally from Guadalajara in Mexico.  “You know, like in the Grapes of Wrath?” she would say.  “No, not the sad part, the part about working in the fields.  That was my childhood. It was a happy time, working hard in the fields, then getting together in the camp, eating meals cooked over the fire.  Someone always had an instrument to play and we would dance and sing.”  It was a simple life filled with hard work and a lot of love and zest for life.  She had a way of always looking at the beauty in life, no matter what was going on.  It was in Manteca that she met her first husband Robert Rathman.  It was her birthday in January and she and her sisters went dancing a club in Sacramento. I was enjoying a drink at the table and some good looking fella asked me to dance.    They danced until the place closed.  She knew right then that would be the man she would marry.  The next day, knowing only that she worked in a store in Manteca, he went store to store looking for her.  That August they married.  In the late ‘70s they moved to Las Vegas and bought their house in a newly established community in Spring Valley and raised their 2 boys.  She planted 5 eucalyptus trees that are now the envy of the neighborhood.  In spite of the many losses in her life, Grace continued to be a shining light in her community and at her beloved church St. Joseph Husband of Mary.  She loved to speak of how she could travel the world right here in the city of Las Vegas.  We could have breakfast in Paris – at the French Café – then dinner in Serbia at Prince and desert in Korea at Gabi.  Even in her eighties, she stayed active working in her yard and walking in the park.  She would often be seen dancing in her kitchen.  She was strong willed and full of spunk reveling in teasing others and getting teased right back.

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