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My Dear Wife Lucy Govea
FORT WORTH - Lucy Gomez Govea, 63, passed away on Sunday, August 3, 2025, surrounded by her loving family. She had an inoperable spontaneous brain hemorrhage on July 31, 2025 around 9 p.m.
Funeral Service: 9:30 a.m. Monday, August 11, 2025, in Mount Olivet Chapel, 2301 North Sylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas 76111. Officiated by Robert Ynostrosa, an Elder from Rosen Heights Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, August 10, 2025, in the Sandburg Suite at Mount Olivet.
Lucy was born in Fort Worth, Texas August 1, 1962, to Rito Serrano Gomez and Esbelda Flores Gomez. She was the eldest and smallest of four, coming in at 4 foot 11 inches. While she may have been in small stature, her heart knew no limits.
During High School, Lucy held a part-time job at a daycare center, where she affirmed her love for kids and desire to be a mother. She graduated from Diamond Hill High School in 1980. Following graduation, Lucy attended Tarrant County Community College where she was majoring in Accounting.
On July 17, 1981, Lucy married her high school sweetheart, Pedro (Pete) Govea in a small ceremony at the Tarrant County courthouse. They expanded their family and had 4 beautiful girls. Lucy and Pete had just celebrated their 44th wedding anniversary this year, twice, traveling to be with their grandbabies.
Lucy lived a beautiful life full of precious moments, dedicated to helping and serving others. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. She had the privilege of raising her daughters at home. She always encouraged her girls to focus on their education and was their biggest advocate and cheerleader. She supported and encouraged them to achieve whatever dream they had, not only her girls, but her nieces and nephews, neighbors, and friends.
She attended and participated in all the school events, programs, and field trips for her daughters, nieces, nephews, and eventually grandchildren. Lucy was the first to volunteer and jump into action, always ready to go and assist family and friends in any way, whether it be for family functions, planning, decorating, cooking, baking or organizing events, to providing gifts and treats.
She was a loving, caring mother and the best grandma to all her grandbabies. Lucy loved being a grandma as much, if not more than being a mother and fully embraced her role as grandma. She always had her suitcase packed and ready to go at a moment's notice and happily traveled across the state and country's borders to be there for her children and grandchildren.
To her nieces and nephews, Lucy was the best Tia, always there making sure everything was okay and taken care of. Amongst her many passions in life were family, service, and she loved to bake.
Lucy's loving kindness touched many lives. She leaves behind a legacy of loving service and compassion. Lucy will be immensely missed and will forever be in our hearts.
Lucy was a member of the Rosen Heights congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses and on May 25, 1991, she was baptized, dedicating herself to Jehovah. She was a deep believer in Christ and the resurrection as quoted in John 11:25, "Jesus said to her; 'I am the resurrection and the life. The one who exercises faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life.'"
Lucy is preceded in death by her father, Rito Serrano Gomez and brother, Rito Flores Gomez Jr.
She is survived by her husband, Pedro Govea; daughter, Roxann Marie Govea
and son-in-law, Jorge Iduarte; daughter, Rosann Mae Govea; daughter, Lucinda
Leann Govea; daughter, Mercedes Suzann Duke and son-in-law, Joshua Duke; her
grandchildren, Milo Pax Duke and Jorge Arturo Iduarte; step-grandchildren,
Reuben, Atlantis, Nikolas, Isla Duke, Jiselle Jaqueline and Jayden Iduarte
Rios; mother, Esbelda Flores Gomez; sister, Lydia Gomez Martinez; brother,
Jesse Gomez and sister-in-law Rachel Gomez. She is also survived by all of
her loving nieces and nephews.
MOUNT OLIVET CHAPEL
Greenwood Funeral Homes - Cremation
2301 N. Sylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76111
817-831-0511
Life with my wife
Our last kiss, she had just got home from helping my daughter in Galveston, and
picking up our other daughter at the airport, she got home just minutes before I
did, and I told her I miss you
To My Dear Beloved Wife Lucy
I want to start by saying I
Love you, and I didn't realize you are so Beautiful
As I now look back through
our photos, I realize how lucky I was to have such a Beautiful girl to be my
wife and whom chose me to be with, I'm so mad I didn't tell you how Pretty you
looked. I took it for granted.
You were the best thing
that ever happened to me, I couldn't ask for anyone better, cause there is no
one better for me than you were, I was so spoiled and didn't know how spoiled I was.
You were the cornerstone of the family, you always put other people before yourself, you always took care of all the family, when someone needed anything you were there to lend a helping hand, when someone fell on bad times, you were there as a good listener, you were always there to console them in times of trouble, You lived a fine Christian life, You left a good model for your daughters and I to follow, everyone loves you, My Dad and Mom even considered you as a daughter, and they always enjoyed your company, and looked forward to you coming by their house.
I want to thank you for
accepting me as your husband, I know I was not good enough for you, I know I
made you happy but I could have done more to make you Very Happy, I'm mad at
myself for all the little things I never did or said to you, like your so
beautiful and I love you, I truly hope you forgive
me.
You and I preached that
when you fall asleep at death, (Psalm 146: 1-2,4) your thoughts do perish and
are conscience of nothing, and Mathew 24:13 reads "But the one who had endured
to the end will be saved" and you did just so, also Jesus said at John 11:25 Jesus said to her "I am
the resurrection and the life, The one who Exercises faith in me, even though he
dies, will come to life", I will see you then.
Again you are So Beautiful,
and I will miss you cause I wanted to grow very very old with you, I'm sorry I
didn't realize how lucky I was, and its only now that your gone, I realize how
Great it was to be with you, like the saying goes, you never know what you have
until its gone, again I cannot apologize enough and hope you forgive
me.