Luz Maria Pacheco Hernandez, age 55, rejoined her loved ones. A pillar of fortitude, bravery, wholehearted love is what captured the very essence of who she was. Life threw a lot at her, but she handled it all and kept us moving. A warm, amusing soul who never took life for granted and brought affection and laughter into hard times. Beneath every moment of tough love was a mother's relentless determination to give her children the best possible life.