Mary B. Martinez
( April 23, 1930 – June 24, 2022 )
Mary B. Martinez, 92 years young, made her journey home to be with our Heavenly Father on June 24, 2022. Mary had always said that when her “suitcases were packed for Heaven, she wanted to die in her sleep.” When Mary wanted something, you could be sure she was going to get it. After numerous health issues, this spunky forever young lady died peacefully in her sleep at Spanish Peaks Veterans Community Living Center in Walsenburg, Colorado. She was born on April 23, 1930, to Veronica Trujillo Salazar and Jose Salazar in Raton, NM where she lived for the majority of her life. Mary lost both of her parents at a very young age, and hence, learned early on how to become a survivor and a fighter, and that is what she continued to do until her very last breath. Even though she stood only 4’10” tall, she knew that she could take on the world. Everyone that met her knew that she was a fierce force of nature. Though stubborn to the end, she made everyone around her smile with her contagious one-of-a-kind laugh, her off-beat usually flirtatious humor, and the fact that she knew she was the “most beautiful girl in the world,” winning the facility’s Silver Queen competition, an accomplishment in which she was forever proud. Everyone she met was her “Angel of the Lord”. She kept everyone in her nursing home on their toes and smiling, and she always assured all of us that she “loved us with all of her heart and part of her liver.”
Mary was preceded in death by her brother Johnny Salazar and her loving husband of 60+ years, Louis A. Martinez. Weeks before her death, Mary was anxiously awaiting the time she could dance with Louis again in Heaven. Mary is survived by her sister, Madeline Sanchez, who shares Mary’s great faith as well as her spunky personality. She is also survived by her three children, daughter Pat Lucero and husband John Lucero, son Lawrence Martinez, and daughter Diana Martinez, and five grandchildren John Lucero, Sherri Whinney (Dan Whinney), Cindy Lara (Oscar Lara), Daniel Mendez, and Feleisha Dye (Christopher Dye), and four great-grandchildren Mckenzy Whinnie, Levi Whinnie, Francisco Rojas and Ezequiel Rojas, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Also, surviving are special friends Bob and Jan Dye, as well as all her partners in crime friends and all the staff at SPVCLC. Mary will be greatly missed by all.
A private memorial service will be held on July 14, 2022, in the Chapel of the Alderette-Pomeroy Funeral Home in Raton NM with a viewing at 10:30 AM. Mary will be buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery next to her wonderful husband, Louis. Mary, we love you. Behave yourself. Happy trails and much dancing. Miss you until we meet again.
Arrangements for Mary B. Martinez are under the direction of the Alderette-Pomeroy Funeral Home.
