Marcia Jimenez

Marcia Jimenez, “Guita”, 95 years old, went to be with our Lord on January 23, 2025 in Dallas, Texas. She was born Marcia Barradas on October 18, 1929 in Chicuasen-Actopan, Veracruz, Mexico, to Jose Maria Barradas and Gregoria Barradas. She grew up alongside her younger sisters, Sofia and Teresa in Veracruz eventually moving to the City of Orizaba. Along the way, she met her stepsiblings, Piedad, Martha, Guillermo and Felipe and she was a great older sister to all of them. She was trained as a medical assistant but her love for fashion inspired her to start a very successful business as a dress designer and seamstress in Orizaba, pioneering the practice of making custom garments for the women of her town.

Marcia met and married Jose “Pepe” Jimenez in 1952 in Orizaba. She followed Pepe to the United States, where together they established a new life for themselves and their children in Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois. Marcia initially continued her designer work in the design district in Chicago, but eventually she and Pepe started their own businesses, including a grocery store and the Azteca de Oro Laundromat epitomizing the American Dream. She loved dancing and to her “El baile para mi era todo!” (Dancing for me was everything!). After all, she was married to the Fred Astaire of the family! To her, fun was watching novelas, cooking, and sewing outfits for members of her family. Her unique recipes including chiles rellenos, carne asada, mole and pipian are unsurpassed. She had a unique gift of being able to look at a dress or suit in a fashion magazine and subsequently create her own couture design for her clientele. God help you if you wore the ”wrong” style for your body or forget to wear the proper undergarments. She was a life force to her family and friends, and she loved everyone around her deeply. Everything and everyone revolved around Marcia. Definitely the Queen Bee who, not surprisingly, survived all her younger siblings who preceded her in death.

Marcia is also preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Pepe. She is survived by her daughter, Mayra Jimenez Thompson MD, her sons Jose W. Jimenez, Esq and J. Cesar Jimenez MBA, as well as by her grandchildren. great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

Visitation for family and friends will be held on January 31, 2025 from 4:00pm to 8:00pm at Calvary Hill Funeral Home Chapel, 3235 Lombardy Lane Dallas Texas 75220.

Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2025, at 2:30pm at St. Rita Catholic Church, 12521 Inwood Road Dallas Texas 75244.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in Marcia’s memory may be made to the St Paul Medical Clinic of Lancaster, Texas, and the Catholic Pro-Life Community in Dallas, Texas.