Eva Cordova

Eva Cordova, of the Coit community, passed away Saturday, October 13, at the Bremond Rehab Center after a brief illness. She was 63. Visitation will be Sunday, October 14, 2012, from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. at the Groesbeck Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 P.M. on Monday, October 15, 2012, at the Monte Carmelo Church in Groesbeck, with Reverend Pedro Aguirre officiating. Burial will follow in the Kosse City Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Austin McCarver, T.J. Cordova, Carlos Smith, Gerald Cardenas, Buck Botello, Ernest Mushinski, and John McCarver. Eva was born August 25, 1949 in Thornton to Manuel Cordova and Guadalupe (Davila) Cordova. She started school in Kosse, and graduated from Groesbeck High School in 1968. She worked for ten years in Waco for Frank Smith and Sons. In 1979, she opened the El Café Cordova in downtown Kosse, where she owned, operated and cooked many meals for the public for six years. Eva stayed at home to take care of her parents and family at Coit, but always kept her love for cooking. She could always be counted on for helping make large batches of tamales, cakes and other specialities for the church fund raising meals. Her church, Monte Carmelo, was an important part of her life and she loved going to the services. Her family was also very important in her life, and she was known as “Tia Ala” to the nieces and nephews. Eva also loved crocheting afghans and blankets, but her primary enjoyment in life was talking on the telephone, whether with her sisters or nieces and nephews, or with anyone else she knew. She loved her family and they loved her; she will be greatly missed by all of them. Eva was preceded in death by her parents, and her brothers Pedro Cordova (in April 2009) and Manuel Cordova (in November 2009). She is survived by three sisters and brothers-in-law: Lupe and Ricardo Salas of Kosse, Rosalinda and John McCarver of Kosse, Eloisa and Ernest Mushinski of Bremond; nieces, Ana Smith and husband Carlos of Woodway, and Sylvia Cardenas and husband Gerald of Kilgore, and their ten day old son, Gerald Christian Cardenas; nephew, Austin McCarver of Kosse; great nephews, Brent Smith and Bryce Smith of Woodway; aunts, Orpha Cordova of Groesbeck, Esperanza Cordova of Dallas, and uncle and aunt, Andrew and Clementina Cordova of Grand Saline; and a host of cousins and friends.