Atanacia Garcia

Progreso- Atanacia Garcia, 66, passed away on Monday, August 21st, 2017. She was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico to Luis and Refugia Villanueva. She met her future husband, Pedro Garcia as a very young adult and they were married shortly after in August of 1969. They would move to Progreso in 1972, which is where they would raise their family and enjoy nearly fifty years of marriage. Early in their marriage, Nacha and Pedro worked in the fields to earn a living, but later she was able to become a housewife and take care of their three children. She was a great homemaker. She was an excellent cook and a great care giver. When her children were grown, she helped raise the grandchildren also. They are going to miss her great home cooked meals. Some of their favorites were chicharon and her tortillas. Nacha sewed the girls' dresses when she needed to. She enjoyed going to church and went most Sundays in her early years. Nacha loved to travel when the opportunity would arise. She traveled just about anywhere her children would take her, San Antonio, Dallas or back to her home town of San Luis Potosi. She also enjoyed her novelas on television and playing chalupa with her friends and family. When Nacha was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2002, her loving husband retired from his career to care for her. Atanacia is preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her loving husband and soulmate, Pedro Garcia, her daughters, Veronica Garcia of Weslaco, Lucy Gonzalez (Marcial) of San Juan, and Benancio Garcia (Maria Loa) of Progreso, her grandchildren, Jessica Marie, Daniel, Julissa, and Priscilla Garcia, Julian, Isaac, MaKayla and Gabriella Gonzalez, Angel C. and Anika B. Olvera, five great grandchildren, brother, Luis Villanueva and Matea Villanueva. She will always be remembered as a caring and loving daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, from 9am-9pm, with a rosary at 7pm. Mass will be held on Thursday, August 24th, at 2pm at San Martin de Porres in Weslaco. Burial will follow at Highland Memorial Park.