Mariana Martinez Villarreal, age 93, passed away April. 30, 2006, in Atascosa, TX. Born April 15, 1913, in San Antonio, she was the daughter of Juan and Maria Flores Martinez, the second of five children. After the death of her father, her mother remarried but her new husband was unable to provide for the children. She and her brother and sisters moved with their uncle Santiago Flores to D'Hanis where she assumed the role of a mother to her brother and sisters. She met Anacleto Villarreal in D'Hanis and they were married in 1938 and had nine children. They had celebrated over 57 years of marriage before his death. Mariana is preceded in death by her parents; husband; children, Rodolfo (1st), Gloria, Henry, Raul, Estella and Rodolfo (2nd); brother, Paublo Martinez; and sisters, Seferina Martinez and Matiana Hemby. She is survived by three children, Armando Villarreal Sr. and wife Hilda, Gilberto Villarreal Sr. and wife Mary Olga, and Emma Villarreal; daughters-in-law, Lydia Villarreal and Elena Villarreal; son-in-law, Robert Ramirez; sister, Juanita Cortez Torres; 17 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. Mariana (Granny to many) lived during the horse and buggy age and all the way to the space age. She would tell stories about how they would leave early in the morning from D'Hanis, spend the night in Castroville, and arrive in San Antonio mid-day the next day. She was a hard worker, taking care of her siblings as a teenager, helping her husband work in the fields as a migrant worker, and raising her family. Even the day before becoming ill, she wanted to pull some weeds in the yard, saying she could still do it. She was always willing to help when she had the opportunity. She will be missed, but not without hope. She was a Christian woman and knew about the hope of resurrection in Jesus Christ. We all look forward to that time when we enter the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.