Loving Mother Maria Catalina Garcia was born in a little country in Central America on July 24 1943. By the time she was born only God knew she would be a great gift as a daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, mother-in- law, friend and everybody who met her. She was a very strong but gentle lady. She worked hard for family and dedicated her life to her husband, Eusebio and daughters, Judy, Ruth, and Christina; making sure every single action was full of love. For the last two years she shared great moments with her sister Marina, and kept in touch with her brothers in NY, Adan, Pablo, and Jorge. She was always willing to learn and strived to be better everyday. She enjoyed her knitting club and designed beautiful scarves and hats. Her greatest satisfaction was to cook and spend time with her family and friends. She was very satisfied with life and her Catholic belief made her faith and soul very strong. She enjoyed God’s creation and treated it with respect. The ocean and nature places were her favorite to visit. Cancer was no match for her. She fought for almost two years until she was ready to leave to be with her Creator.Maria was kind, sincere, loving, honest and sweet but a single word could describe her, this word is Love.From Ruth Diaz DaughterThere are not enough words in the world to describe my mother. She was an excellent, loving, caring, giving, patient, delightful, gentle and wise mother, and grandmother. She was a great warrior. She had a very strong faith in God. She was devoted to the Virgin Mary. Her strong faith in God helped her confront any and every obstacle that came herway. She was a sincere, honest ad loyal friend. She loved everyone unconditionally. She loved spending time with family celebrating family birthdays and different holidays. She enjoyed travelling especially to her birth country El Salvador. She also enjoyed cruising. Her hobbies include cooking, gardening and knitting. She always helped others withoutexpecting anything in return. She was an excellent role mother. Thanks to her sacrifices in life I was able to obtain my nursing degree. I will forever miss my mother’s loving, soft, gentle voice and hands. Mother I will miss you telling me how much you love meand listening to your words of wisdom. You will always live in my heart mami. I love you with all my heart mamita.From Joshua Diaz Grandson Age 11My grandmother was always sweet and funny. She was always good to have around. She always came to parties or celebrations ad gave us money on our birthday or Christmas. She made me laugh and always talked to me. She once told me that if thereis a rainbow you should not say “there is a rainbow or it will go away”. I knew she was wise. I wish she could tell me more of her wisdom. Whenever I saw her I was always cheered up because I loved her so much. I was always excited of what she would tell menext. Her voice was soft and she was wise. I am glad she was my grandmother.From Abby Diaz Grand Daughter Age 15My grandmother was a beautiful loving and caring woman. One of the earliest memories I have of her was when I was about seven or eight years old. She would come over every spring break to take care of my brother and I for a whole week. Every morning she would cook breakfast for us, she would take us outside to play, we always watched TV with her and had a very good time together. My grandmother had a funny side to her too. She would get easily distracted and change the conversation when we were talking’ about something serious. That always made melaugh. She loved all of her grandchildren even though we didn’t see her every single day, we knew how much love she had for us. I remember she would always be happy when we were all together weather it was for a party or just a family reunion. One thing we will all miss was her cooking. My favorite food in the whole entire world was her pasta. I will never forget thewonderful taste of her delicious Italian pasta. Guita especially loved her daughters and sons in law. She was always happy when they were all together. I’ll never forget how joyous she was when my parents took her out to eat on the weekends. She would always say “comemos donde los niños quieren comer”. But we always went where she wanted to go eat because thoseweekends were especially for her. She will be missed by many. Her cooking especially. The times that I’ve seen her the happiest was when she went on vacation with us twice on cruses. She had the greatest time and the vacations I will never forget. She was clumsy at times and that made the vacation even more fun and enjoyable. Guita always loved walking around the ship and I remember we would go out late at night to watch shows just her and I, and we had a really good time together. We’d stay up late past curfew and then we will return to the cabins really late. She never got tired, she was able to walk for hours and that surprised me. We had a really good time and I will always love her and miss her and I will never let one day go by without thinking of her.Christina Fonseca DaughterMy Dear Mother….Your beautiful smile, Endless Love and your beautiful memories will always be in our hearts. You left this world as a true fighter and you were a strong woman until the end. You fought for almost 2 years and yet you always had a smile to share with us. You taught us the beauty of morals, values, family and to follow our dreams. A dream of a life time, you accomplish that changed our lives for a better future. Freddy and I are very Thankful for All the Love and Memories we shared together with you and our son Ivan. We were so happy when we found out I was pregnant, you were so happy to hear the wonderful news. The weekends were the best, we came to see you while you enjoyed cooking Pupusas for little Ivan. I will miss your delicious food that you made in the kitchen with so much love. I am very Blessed and Proud to call you my mother. Everyone that knew you will truly miss you, you were a sweet person, a wonderful loving wife, mother, Daughter, Grandmother, Sister, Mother in law and True Friend. You thought about others before yourself, you were so honest and kind in every way. Now I know why God took you away so soon. There is no more pain, you can be at Peace now. For the Lord has taken you with open arms and the Angels are with you in the Kingdom of Heaven. God heard your prayers and ours. I will forever Love you Mamí. You were so Special in every way with your sweet tender voice. I will miss you so much, it’s just for a little while until we meet again. Love Always, your baby. Her family will be honoring her life at Cunningham Turch Funeral Home on December 21, 2016 at 6:30 P.M – 9:30 P.M. and will be having a Funeral Mass at St. Anthony Catholic Church on Thursday December 22, 2016 at 9:30 A.M. immediately following the mass will be the internment at National Memorial Park. From Ruth Diaz Daughter