A rosary will be held at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, July 14, 2006 at St. Jude’s Catholic Church in San Patricio, New Mexico for Julia Warner Romero, who passed away on July 7, 2006 in Covington, Louisiana.  She was 87 years old.  A funeral mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 15 at St. Jude’s. Rev. Al Galvan of Ruidoso will officiate.  Interment will follow the service at Hondo Cemetery.

            Julia was born on August 1, 1918 in Lincoln, NM to Juan and Emilia Torres Warner. She was married to George Romero and together they raised a family of nineteen children.

            She was an active member of St. Jude’s Catholic Church, and will be missed by all who knew and loved her.

            Her survivors include her sons, Basil, Willie, Richard, Jimmy, Roger, Fred, Clifford; daughters, Cecilia, Andrea, Rebecca, Ethel, Martha, Carmen, and Bernice; sisters, Estela, Mary Violia, and Lucila Alice.  She is also survived by her 33 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchild.

            She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and her sons, John, Sammy, Daniel, Eddie, and Samuel; her brothers, Manuel, David, Julian, and Eloi, and her sisters, Predicanda, Apalonia, Carmelita, and Francisca.

            There will be a viewing on Friday, July 14, 2006 from 6-8 p.m. at St. Jude’s Catholic Church.

            Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Ballard Funeral Home and Crematory.