Judy Marie Vigil

Judy Marie Vigil, 58, of Southern Nevada left us on Monday February 13th, 2023. Judy was born with Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect that affects how the blood travels through the heart and into the lungs. She later developed diabetes, hypertension, that led to End Stage Renal Disease. She also contracted Hepatitis C from a blood transfusion that was required during one of her 5 open heart surgeries and 6 valve replacements. This caused End Stage Liver Disease. Later, she developed Pulmonary Hypertension and this is what her body succumbed to in the end.

Judy is survived by her daughters Leticia Voss & husband Tyson Voss, and Megan Shafer & partner Kane Kelly, her mother Dominga Hernandez of Apple Valley California, her father John Leroy Vigil of Fontana California, her Sister Janice Pengarthit and husband Boonsueb Pengarthit of Phoenix Arizona, her sister Sherry Johari of San Dimas, her brother John Leroy Vigil Jr of Fontana California, her brother Steve Vigil of Riverside California, and all of their growing families. She also was a mother figure to Cameron Ybarra.

Judy was a respiratory therapist at USC University Hospital (now called Keck Hospital of USC) in Los Angeles California for many years. She was extremely proud of her accomplishments and was always willing to share her knowledge.

Anyone that knew Judy would know how kind, giving, humble, brave, strong, smart, and frugal she was. Although she was ill since birth, she was always helping and guiding others through their ailments with smiles and laughter. She could find a friend in a stranger and become family to those friends. She was a friend and loved one to so many, it would be endless to name everyone. But please know that with her last hours, she was thinking of all of you.

Services will be held in California at a later date. The family will post details as they become available.

People come and go, but once in a while, you meet certain people who you know are going to stay in your life forever. The ones you could talk with for hours, but still enjoy their comfortable silence. The ones that you can laugh and cry with. The ones that stick by your side, believe in you and help you remember who you really are. You know, the once in a lifetime kind of people – the drop everything, call in the middle of night, always there no matter what people. These people are your tribe – love them fiercely.

- Bryan Anthonys"

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.palmnorthwest.com for the Vigil family.