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Maria Guadalupe Cooney

July 19, 1936 — November 13, 2017

COONEY, MARIA G. (LUPE), age 79 born in Tepeaca, Puebla, Mexico July 19, 1938 to Jose M. Sandoval and Lidia G. Garcia passed away peacefully on Monday, November 13, 2017 after a ten-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was a graduate of Instituto Pedagogico Pacelli in Morelia, Mexico. As the oldest child, she began working in the grape and strawberry fields of California to help her parents purchase a home here in El Paso. After her four sons were grown, she entered the real estate profession and was a top producer for over twenty years. She designed and built homes as well as remodeling many. She helped many families purchase homes by loaning them the necessary down payments and she coined the phrase “creative financing” here in El Paso. She was a member of St. Matthew Parish where she helped with Bible Study. She was preceded in death by her parents, and brothers, Juan Sandoval and Manuel Sandoval. She is survived by her husband of 52 years, JOHN C. COONEY, and their four sons, Robert Cooney (Christi), Stephen Cooney(Teresa) Michael Cooney, CRNA(Martha), and Paul Cooney MD. (Misti), her brother, Jose M. Sandoval JR., and sisters, Lidia Heinemann, Martha Budde and Socorro Dreher of Germany, as well as 18 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. She received loving care from her beloved caregivers, Natalia Valenciana and her daughter Zulema, and Karen I. Diaz. Visitation will be held on Monday, November 20, 2017 from 6:00PM to 8:00PM, with Holy Rosary at 7:00PM at Sunset Funeral Home-West. Rite of the Christian Burial will be held on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 10:30AM at St. Matthew Catholic Church, 400 W. Sunset Rd. Interment will follow at Mt. Carmel Cemetery. In lieu of flowers family requests contributions be made to St. Matthew Catholic Church Building Fund, 400 W. Sunset Rd., in honor of Lupe Services entrusted to Sunset Funeral Home-West, 480 N. Resler Dr. Please visit our online registry at www.sunsetfuneralhomes.net
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Monday, November 20, 2017

6:00 - 8:00 pm

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Monday, November 20, 2017

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Mass

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

10:30 - 11:15 am

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400 W. Sunset, El Paso, TX 79912

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Memory Gardens of the Valley Cemetery

4900 McNutt Rd, Santa Teresa, NM 88008

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