Simon M Flores

WORTH, TX, PASSED AWAY ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 2018.

HE WAS BORN IN GULF, TX ON FEBRUARY 18, 1926.

HE WAS MARRIED TO DOMITILA B FLORES WHO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH IN 2010.

THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN, ALL RESIDE IN SAN ANTONIO AND BOERNE: BELINDA

CAMARILLO, SIMON FLORES, JR, AND LORETTA FLORES. HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY

NUMEROUS GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, NEICES AND NEPHEWS.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS MOTHER, BENITA MARTINEZ; HIS SISTERS, MARIA

ANASTACIA F. RAMIREZ, LUCIA M. ESPINOZA; THREE BROTHERS, LORENZO FLORES,

JOE MARTINEZ, GUADALUPE MARTINEZ. HE IS SURVIVED BY TWO SIBLINGS:

FRANCISCA F GUTIERREZ OF FORT WORTH AND MANUEL MARTINEZ OF

BROWNSVILLE.

SIMON WAS A TRUE PATRIOT HAVING SERVED IN THE ARMED SERVICES DURING WWII

WITH HONORABLE DISCHARGE FROM THE ARMY, JUNE 1944 TO 1946, WHERE HE

RECEIVED TWO BRONZE STARS FOR GOOD CONDUCT, AN ARMY OCCUPATION RIBBON

(GERMANY) AND A VICTORY RIBBON. HE REENLISTED IN THE AIR FORCE FROM JUNE

1946 TO MAY 1950 RECEIVING AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE AFTER HAVING SERVED IN

GREENLAND AS A CORPORAL IN THE USAF.

AS A YOUNG MAN IN BROWNSVILLE, HE WORKED AT THOMPSON'S GROCERY STORE

WHICH LATER BECAME DENRUSS PHARMACY. AFTER DISCHARGE FROM THE SERVICE,

HE WORKED AS A NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTOR IN SAN ANTONIO.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE BEING HANDLED BY LAUREL LAND FUNERAL HOME

IN FORT WORTH. HE WILL BE BURIED AT 1PM ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 19TH AT THE DFW

NATIONAL CEMETERY WITH HONOR GUARD; A FUNERAL MASS WILL BE CELEBRATED

AT 10 AM AT ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CATHOLIC CHURCH. VISITATION WILL BE HELD AT

LAUREL LAND FUNERAL HOME ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 18TH FROM 5 TO 7 PM.

MEMORIALS ARE SUGGESTED TO TARRANT COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS WHO

PROVIDED INVALUABLE SERVICE TO HIM FOR MANY YEARS.