Gloria V. Garza, 88, passed into the loving hands of our Lord on March 3, 2019 at 3:15 a.m. in San Marcos, TX.
Gloria was born in Laredo, TX to Tomas and Corina Villarreal. She devoted her life’s work to education as a teacher and as a mentor for other teachers, students and administrators. She attended and graduated from North Texas State College for Women in Denton, TX with a Master of Art in Literature.
She taught all ages of students from high school to kindergarten. She taught in Rio Grande City at the start of her career where she met and married Eleazar Garza. She went on to teach in McAllen - Home Economics and English. Her son, Ruben, was one of her English students. After Eleazar was transferred to Austin, TX in 1976, she taught kindergarten in the Austin school district. She later applied and worked for the Texas Education Agency as a bilingual consultant.
