Service: 2 p.m. Friday, July 24, Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation: Noon-2 p.m. Friday, July 24, Puerto Al Cielo Church, 1324 Houser St., Muscatine.

MUSCATINE, Iowa – Angelina Navarro Viuda de Letona, 97, Muscatine, died Monday, July 20, 2009, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City.

The Rev. Raquel Aguirre will officiate. 

Casketbearers will be Julio Cesar Menjivar Jr., Jesus Antonio Ibarra, Fortunato Rocha Jr. and Carlos Rocha.  Honorary bearers will be Carlos Reynaldo Martinez and Julio Cesar Menjivar Sr.

Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery.

The Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials may be made to Angelina’s daughter, Martha Menjivar. 

Online condolences may be left at www.wittichfuneralhome.com.

Mrs. Navarro was born June 1, 1912, in San Salvador, El Salvador, the daughter of Pedro and Matea Hernandez Navarro.  She married Jose Antonio Letona in 1941, in San Salvador, El Salvador.  He preceded her in death in 1960.

She lived in Muscatine for the past six years with her family.

She enjoyed the company of her family and attending family gatherings. 

She loved to tell stories from her past.

Survivors include a son, Carlos Reynaldo Martinez and wife, Olivia, of California; two daughters, Maria Nirma Bonilla and husband, Julio, of Australia and Marta Lidia Menjivar and husband, Julio, of Muscatine; 10 grandchildren, Oscar Letona and wife, Yolanda, Lupita Letona, Nidia Martinez, Antonio Martinez, Eduardo Martinez, Jeffrey Martinez, Lisett Bonilla, Yesenia Isabel Ibarra and husband Jesus Antonio, Julio Cesar Menjivar Jr. and wife, Griselda and Roberto Francisco Menjivar and wife, Frances; 19 great- grandchildren; two brothers, Abel Navarro and wife, Celia, of El Salvador and Andres Navarro and wife, Josefina, of El Salvador; two sisters, Herminia Navarro, of  Los Angeles, Calif. and Hilda Navarro of El Salvador.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a grandson, Erick Bonilla, three brothers, Raul, Alonzo and Manuel Navarro.