Flora Acosta Cantu

Flora (Acosta) Cantu, 69 of Navasota, passed away Monday, December 24th at Scott & White Hospital in College Station. Visitation with family and friends will be held from 5:00 - 7:00pm, Friday, December 28th at Nobles Funeral Chapel. A celebration of her life will be at 10:00 am, Saturday, December 29th, also at the funeral home. Rev. Tomas Garza will officiate. Interment will follow in Oakland Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Nobles Funeral Chapel.

Flora was born May 2, 1949 in Navasota to Augustin and Aurelia (Arispe) Acosta. She married Ernesto R. Cantu, Jr., and worked as a cook in the restaurant industry to help suppport her family. Flora loved cooking and taking care of others. She loved the Lord with all her heart. Always there to help others, her Christian spirit and servant's heart was evident in her smile and everything she did.

She is survived by her daughters and son-in-law Angelica and Manuel Prado and Mary Cantu; sons and daughter-in-law Ernest, III and Pamela Cantu and Geronimo Cantu; sister Vicky Cruz; brothers and sisters-in-law Salvador and Yolanda Ledesma, Bruno and Sylvia Acosta, Juan Acosta, Augustin and Amadia Acosta and Felix Acosta; 11 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Serving as pallbears are Ernest Cantu, III., Geronimo Cantu, Manuel Prado, E. J. Cantu, Isaac Guitrion, Juan Nava, Andrew Guitrion and Daniel Orozco.

Mrs. Cantu was preceded in death by her parents; sisters Alice Mosqueda Acosta and Sylvia Orozco Acosta and son, Jesse Cantu.

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