Aurea Ester de la Cruz Obituary (1934 - 2016)

In loving memory of Aurea Ester de la Cruz, who has gone to rest with the Lord on April 18, 2016, in Womack Army Medical Center on Fort Bragg, NC. She was a resident of Spring Lake for forty years and was a military wife and a mother of nine children, grandmother of fifteen and great-grandmother of twenty-one. She is survived by seven of her nine children: Evelyn Alicea, Angel S. de la Cruz, Jr., Aurea E. Wangerien, Juan B. de la Cruz, Efrain de la Cruz, Carlos Enrique de la Cruz, and Hilda Malitza de la Cruz. She is preceded in death by a daughter, Lillian Caceres, on September 11, 2001, in the Twin Towers, and a son, Ruben de la Cruz on March 12, 2002. She gave all to her children and she was loved by all and will be truly missed. Funeral services will be held Friday, April 22, 2016 at 1:00 PM in the Chapel of Adcock Funeral Home in Spring Lake. Interment will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens in Spring Lake. A visitation for family and friends will be held Thursday, April 21, 2016 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Adcock Funeral Home.