Regardless of how severe her health conditions became, Margarita Baez never lost her love for life, for family and for people in general. No matter how sick she was, she was always filled with love. When others would have surrendered to despair, Margarita stayed strong, thanks to that love.
She was always willing to engage people in friendly chat, to listen to their stories and to share with them the fleeting moment of a bus ride or the time spent at a hospital's waiting room. She was fiercely independent. She lived in her own place until the day the aneurism struck because she wanted the solace of cooking in her own kitchen.
Family was always her primary concern and she ceaselessly labored for her children's sake. Even in her final days, she was more concerned for her children and remaining siblings than with herself. Her beloved sister Concepcion had passed away in December of 2019 and Margarita often spoke of how she wished that her own illness had not impeded her from being able to visit her sister at the hospital. Margarita would say that although she knew that her own mother had died approximately twenty years ago, she still felt her in her heart as a living presence.
Through Margarita, we know that we can face life's adversities with patience and resignation, always hopeful that tomorrow can be better than today. Just because she is no longer here, it doesn’t mean that the love for life and for people that characterized her can't continue to be an example and a guide to us.
Margarita is survived by her children Ronald, Edwin, Francisco and Daniel; by her siblings Arnaldo and Enrique; by her nieces Melissa and Frances; by her nephew Michael; and by many grandchildren, grandnephews and grandnieces.
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