Maria Elva Yanez

Jennings

Graveside services for Ms. Maria Elva Yanez, 78, of Jennings will be held on Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Greenwood Cemetery at 10:00 a.m. with Bro. Juan Yanez, her son, officiating.

Ms. Yanez passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, after a long illness.  She was born in Matamoros, Mexico on August 10, 1944, to Porfirio Gonzales Lopez and Maria Norberta Mata de Gonzalez.  She will be remembered as a loving and giving mother who always put everyone ahead of herself.  She will be greatly missed but never forgotten.

Those left to cherish her memory are her son, Juan E. Yanez, Sr. (Melinda Yanez); granddaughter, Diana Yanez Aucoin (Zack Aucoin); grandson, Juan E. Yanez, Jr.; great grandson, Zachary Taylor Aucoin, Jr.; two sisters, Maria De Jesus Yanez of Harlingen, TX and Marie Graciela Renteria of Washington.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Salvador Yanez Sr., her parents, a daughter, Diana Yanez; sisters, Guillermina Gonzalez De Garcia, Carmen Lucila Gonzalez De Guerra, , and brothers, Porfirio Gonzalez and Norberto Gonzalez.