Angelita Cruz Luna (Plainview)

Angelita Cruz Luna, 84, passed away on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. A funeral service will be held 2:00 P.M. Monday, January 11, 2021 at Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit in Tulia with Pastor David Contreras officiating. Interment will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery in Tulia under the care of Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview. A rosary will be held 6:00 P.M. Sunday, January 10, 2021 at Kornerstone Funeral Directors in Plainview. Angelita was born on February 21, 1936 in Nixon, Texas to Estanislado and Maria Cruz. She married Benny Arredondo Luna, Sr. on October 9, 1954 in Tulia, Texas. She was a member of the Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit and served as a guadalupana. Angelita was our rock, a very strong and beautiful mother filled with life, feistiness and sass! She raised her twelve children on tough love and she expected all of her grandchildren & greats to be raised the same ~ with tough love. Respect and honor for your elders was of the utmost importance to her. She will be dearly missed. Angelita liked to work on word search books, puzzles, enjoyed playing Skip-Bo, Bingo and Spanish lotería. She was entertained by watching Spanish soap operas, all kinds of Disney cartoons, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Twilight, and many other iconic movies. Angelita took great pleasure in sewing ~ especially when she sewed Rudy’s “Hammer pants” & outfits! If you knew Angelita, you also know she really loved her coffee and cigarettes. She was fond of several artists, such as Cornelio Reyna, Vicente Fernandez, Hillsong, Chris Tomlin, etc. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a brother, Henry Cruz, Sr., three sisters, Anita Basaldua, Amelia Garcia, Cecilia “Celia” Barrera and two sons, Benny Luna, Jr. and Rodolfo “Rudy” Luna. She is survived by her sons, Gilbert Luna and wife, Francis, Richard Luna and wife Joyce, Albert Luna and wife Belinda, Danny Luna, Sammy Luna, all of Tulia, Domingo Luna of Plainview; her daughters, Julia Leyendecker of Plainview, Mary Velazquez, Rachel Villa and husband Francisco, Sandy Garcia and husband Isa, all of Tulia; her brothers, David Cruz, Sr., Ernest Cruz, Sr., Felix Cruz, Sr., Ted Cruz; her sister, Linda Avalos; thirty nine grandchildren, seventy five great grandchildren, and five great-great grandchildren.