Carmen Maria Chavez Vera

Carmen Maria Chavez Vera, 85, of Wilmington, entered Heaven's gates on Saturday September 13, 2014. Carmen was born December 4, 1928 in Ecuador, South America. She is the daughter of the late Enrique Alejandro Chavez and Elena Felida Veliz-Egas. Carmen came to America in 1968 to provide her husband and children with a happier, and more fulfilling life. She and her family lived in New York for 38 years, until they relocated to Wilmington in 2006. A consummate mother and hard worker, Carmen was an excellent cook and enjoyed preparing meals for her family and friends. She was never one to put herself before others and she lived her life in the most positive way. Her actions and the incredible example that she showed her children and grandchildren are behaviors that should be emulated by all of us. Carmen was a generous, loving, supportive, and unselfish woman who always put other people before herself. She was always there when we needed her and she was the most loving and caring wife, mother, and grandmother. Carmen has touched the lives of everyone she knew. Even though she is gone, her memory will live on in all of our hearts forever. She is survived by her loving husband of 63 years, Jose C. Vera; eight children, Walter Freire and wife, Titi, of Ecuador, Fernando Vera and wife, Neritza, Ligia Vera Niemeyer and husband, Charlie, Cruz Vera, Xiomar Vera Garcia and husband, Alex, Jose Vera, Jr., Helena Vera Nilsen, all of New York, and Henry Vera and wife, Julie, of Wilmington; eighteen grandchildren, Walter Freire, Jr., Napoleon Freire, Mary Lou Freire, Andres Freire, Henry Vera, Christopher Vera, Brittany Vera, Lexus Niemeyer, Kurt Niemeyer, Jason Garcia, Michael Garcia, Stephanie Garcia, Michael Vera, Christina Vera, Amanda Nilsen, Justin Nilsen, Jonathan Vera, and Jackson Vera; six great-grandchildren; sisters and brothers, Teresa Scudder, Lucha Flood, Maximo Chavez, and Trosky Chavez. A visitation will be held from 6pm-8pm Monday September 15, 2014 at Andrews Market Street Chapel. A Mass of the Resurrection will be held at 10am Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at Basilica Shrine of St. Mary. In lieu of flowers, donations in Carmen's memory may be made to Carmen's favorite charity at: Sacerdotes del Sagrado Corazon Priests of the Sacred Heart Sacred Heart Monastery PO Box 900 Hales Corners, WI 53130-0900 www.poshusa.org