Jesusa “Susie” Garza Gonzales, Age 105 of Karnes City, TX passed away on Friday, February 15, 2018 in Karnes City, TX. Jesusa was born on July 31, 1913 in Nordheim, TX to the late Primitivo and Paulina Lopez Garza.  She was a retired beautician, loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great grandmother, great-great-great grandmother friend to many and a member of St. Cornelius Catholic.  She married Patricio Vela Gonzales on August 11, 1929 in Karnes City, TX.

She is preceded in death by her husband Patricio Vela Gonzales; parents, Primitivo and Paulina Lopez Garza; sons, Guadalupe Gonzales, Arturo Gonzales, Jose Avelardo Gonzales, sisters, Theresa Garza Martinez, Elida Cortez, Lucia Morin; brothers, Gregorio Garza, Jose Maria Garza, and Juan Guillermo Garza.

She is survived by her daughter, Odilia G. Gonzales of Karnes City, son, Ernesto Gonzales of Mesquite, TX; 15 grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren, 87 great-great grandchildren and 7 great-great-great grandchildren.

A Holy Rosary will be recited Friday, February 22, 2019 at 7PM in the Eckols Funeral Home Chapel in Kenedy, TX. Funeral Mass will be held Saturday, February 23, 2019, at 10:00AM at the St. Cornelius Catholic Church with the Rev. Stanlisaw Marceniak officiating. Interment will be in the Mission Park Burial Cemetery in San Antonio, TX at 1:30 PM Saturday, February 23, 2019.