She was called by many names, including Bea, Betty, Tia Veva, Grandma, Mom, and Wife. She cherished her relationships with many nieces and nephews on both sides of the family. She was a great mother, sister, aunt, and grandmother, who adored them all. She believed that love was an action as well as a word, and she gave herself to her family in every way. She was a wife, mother (to her children and others), Biblical scholar, seamstress, nurse’s aide, and caregiver.īeatrice’s greatest love was her family, flowers (she loved her flowers) and friends. She was the one that everyone went to needing advice or anything else. Quintanilla, Ada Quintanilla Meyers, and Abel M. They were blessed by three children, Joel M. They were married shortly after on July 3, 1949, in Corpus Christi, and enjoyed 48 years together. Alfredo left the Marines, determined to seek Beatrice out, literally going house-to-house in Floresville until he found her. They were pen pals during the war and after, where she wrote to him often, giving encouragement and support. He served in North Africa, Italy, France, Germany, and post-war with the U.S. She always said, “It was love at first sight!” They met while he was stateside, rotating back out to rejoin his unit in the Army Airborne Commandos. Quintanilla, who was the one true love of her life, during World War II in 1942, when she lived in Corpus Christi. 24, 1927, in Floresville, Texas, to Adolfo and Maria Vara Montoya. Beatrice Montoya Quintanilla passed from this life quietly in her sleep on Thursday, July 20, 2023.
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