Elouise C. Gomez

ELOUISE CHARLES GOMEZ WENT TO BE WITH HER LORD AND SAVIOR ON DECEMBER 9, 2014. SHE PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT HOME AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS SURROUNDED BY HER LOVING FAMILY. ELOISA (LOIS) WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 9, 1917 TO MARTIN AND EULALIA CHARLES IN DEL VALLE, TEXAS.

THE FAMILY MOVED TO HOUSTON’S HISTORIC 6TH WARD DISTRICT WHILE SHE WAS STILL A CHILD AND IT IS HERE WHERE SHE THRIVED AND ENCOUNTERED MANY LIFE LONG FRIENDSHIPS. SHE WAS BY NATURE A GREGARIOUS PERSONALITY WHO NEVER MET A STRANGER AND EAGERLY SOUGHT TO FIND THE GOOD IN EVERYONE SHE CAME TO KNOW.

HER LIFE INCAPSULATED THE ESSENCE OF THE ETERNAL OPTIMIST WHO ALWAYS SAW THE GLASS AS HALF FULL. SHE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY ALL WHO’S LIVES SHE TOUCHED WITH HER SAGE ADVICE AND HUMOROUS ANECTDOTES. HER HOBBIES INCLUDED VOLUNTEERING AT HER HOME CHURCH UNTIL THE AGE OF NINETY, TRAVELING WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS, LISTENING TO HER FAVORITE MUSIC, READING AND OF COURSE MEETING NEW PEOPLE.

SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER PARENTS, NINE OF HER 10 SIBLINGS AND HER BELOVED CHILDREN: ROSALIE SENTENO (1999) LARRY GOMEZ (1991).

BY HER GRANDSONS RICHARD AND ANTHONY SENTENO AND GREAT GRANDAUGHTER ANDREA SENTENO.

MOST RECENTLY SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER DEVOTED HUSBAND OF 71 YEARS MR. JOHN M. GOMEZ

SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER GRANDAUGHTER AND CARETAKER GENEVIE MARTINEZ AND HUSBAND ISMAEL JR. THEIR CHILDREN APRIL MARTINEZ (NATHAN) AND MARICELLA GATICA (JACOB) GREAT GREAT GRANDSON JUDAH HERNANDEZ.

GRANDSONS, ALFREDO SENTENO (REBECCA) AND URBAN GOMEZ (AUDREY) GRANDAUGHTERS SYLVIA DE LA CRUZ (LUPE) DEBBIE GONZALEZ (ABEL), LISA AND LUCINDA SENTENO.

TWENTY GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND THIRTY GREAT- GREAT GRANDCHILDREN

HER BELOVED SISTER ORA VELASQUEZ AND FAMILY

LOVING DAUGHTER IN LAW GLENDA GOMEZ

Visitation 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. with the recitation of the Holy Rosary at 6:00p.m.on Thursday, December 11, 2014 at Crespo Navigation. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, December 12, 2014 at St. Joseph Catholic Church 1505 Kane st Houston, Texas 77007. Interment will follow at Historic Hollywood Cemetery.