Marta Elva Rico

Obituary-
Weslaco-Marta Elva Rico, passed away on Friday, December 26th, 2014 at Knapp Medical Center. Marta battled cancer for ten years and fought hard, all the while continuing her employment at WISD, where she was employed for 41 years. She worked at a few different schools, but most may remember her from Sam Houston Elementary or perhaps her last 20 years where she served the students at North Bridge. She loved her career and working with the children, but her friends will miss her fun personality as she loved spending time with them after work and on weekends. Marta had just retired in May of 2014. She will be fondly missed by her loving family who remain here. She left two children, Ruben Rico Jr (Raquel), and Joel (Dolores) both of Weslaco. She had 9 grandchildren, Ruben III, Justin, Joel Jr., Marie , Zavannah, Samantha, Sabrina, Gabriella and Daniella. She also had 2 great grandchildren, Kirra Bella, and Zendaya Ryann Rico. She had four brothers and two sisters, all living. Her brothers are Robert (Rosa) Castro,Juan (Enedelia) Castro, David (Gloria) Castro, Danny (Tempest) Castro, and her sisters Bertha Solis and Cynthia Camargo.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Ruben Rico Sr., and her parents, Luis and Cleotilde Castro.
Visitation will be held Sunday, December 28th from 3pm-9pm with a Rosary at 7pm. A Funeral Mass will be held at 10:00 am on Monday, December 29th, at 10:00 am at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Weslaco with an interment to follow at Highland Memorial Park in Weslaco.
Arrangements are under the direction of McCaleb Funeral Home in Weslaco.
"DEATH is nothing at all. I have only slipped into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way we always used. Put no difference in your time, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, Smile, Think of me, Pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word it always was, let it be spoken without effect, without a trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well."