Luz Elena Padilla Obituary (1939 - 2022)

MADISON - Luz Elena Padilla, 82, died on Friday, February 11, 2022 at Piney Grove Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Kernersville. The funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at Oak Grove Baptist Church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends beginning at 1 p.m. on Tuesday at the church. Friends may sign a register and view Mrs. Padilla from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. on Monday and from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. on Tuesday at Colonial Funeral Home in Madison. Mrs. Padilla was born on August 7, 1939 in Puerto Rico to the late Obdulio Padilla and Jenara Colon Padilla. She was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church, where she worked alongside her sister, Iris in the Spanish ministry for several years. She worked for Tultex and went on to retire from Custom Screens Ink in Madison. Her greatest joy was caring for her family, along with cooking, listening to music and flower gardening. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Trinidad "Manolo" Padilla Santiago; daughter, Helen Rivera; siblings, Aida Garcia, Iris Flynt and Felicita Padilla and nephews, Jose Santiago Padilla and Joseph Garcia. Survivors include her children, Felix Rivera, Jr., Charles Rivera, Nancy Rivera, Luz Damaris Hatcher and Helen Padilla; special sons-in-law, Juan Carlos DeJesus and Kurt Hatcher; grandchildren, Bincy Negron, Ambar Negron, Demi DeJesus, Jasmine Hatcher, William Hatcher, Cilene Rodriguez and Khaleesi Rodriguez; great-grandchildren, Valerie Cruz, Alanys Roman and Abdiel Gonzalez; nieces and nephews, Phyllis Terzic and her daughter, Jennifer Miller, Eladia Zimmers and her son, Chris Chavana, Cynthia Mock and her children, Jessi and Foster Mock, Lydia Santiago Padilla and Papo Santiago Padilla. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to the Parkinson Research Foundation at https://parkinsonhope.org/ Colonial Funeral Home in Madison is serving the family. Condolences may be offered at www.colonialfh.net