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JESUS AND PETRA ALEGRIA, Connubial 67 YEARS     Jesus and Petra Alegria, both born in Cameron Shire, were married Aug. 25, 1940. Parents and children PHOTO    

April 8, 2008, 12:30AM

By LYNWOOD ABRAM
Copyright 2008 Houston Diary   On Friday, Jesus Alegria, 96, who worn out his last two days in a hospice, died first.   Less than 30 minutes later, his spouse of 67 years, Petra T. Alegria, died in a Houston hospital of complications from a descend. Both had been admitted on Thursday.   Petra Alegria had predicted, when she entered the hospital, that her longtime spouse would be the first to die, said their daughter, Arminda Castillo of Houston.   After one of the pair’s sons, Ramon Alegria of Houston, told his female parent that Jesus had died, she didn’t rejoin and died a brief time later, Castillo related. She was 84.   “God broke the mold when he made Mom and Dad. They were the most good,” Castillo reported. Jesus Alegria for 27 years was employed by the incorporated town of Houston as a guardian.     Born in Brownsville on Move forward 1, 1912, he was the son of Guadalupe Alegria and Dolores Huerta Alegria. Petra Torres Alegria was born Aug. 4, 1923, in Los Fresnos in Cameron Shire, the daughter of Justino Torres and Trinidad Luna Torres. They were conjugal on Aug. 25, 1940.   “They were the most wondrous parents,” Castillo reported. “They were always there for us when there was a question at issue, with any kind of relieve they could give.”   In joining to their daughter, Arminda, and son, Ramon, survivors hold sons Guadalupe and Jose de Jesus Alegria, both of Houston; daughters Juanita Rodriguez and Dolores Vazquez, both of Houston, and Trinidad Benavidez, of Homewood, Ill.; The Alegrias also raised two grandchildren, Luis Alegria of Houston and Michelle Alegria, serving in the Ships in Virginia, and a vast-grandchild,...

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