Candido Benavides

    Candido Benavides, 95, of Edna passed away on Feb. 1, 2015 in Shenandoah, at Health South Hospital.
    He was born on Sept. 10, 1919 in Edna, to the late Eulalio and Juanita Benavides. People knew Candido Benavides by his nickname "Candy”, in Edna and the surrounding towns. He was a very hard working man until the age of 83. He worked for G.W.Townsend Construction Company, Hunt Construction, Holiday Construction, and retired from Atkinson Lumber Company.
    Candido was preceded in death by his wife Florence Santellana Benavides; brothers Frank Benavides, Guadalupe Benavides, Alfredo Benavides, Margarito Benavides, and sister, Eva Sanchez.
    He is survived  sisters, Eloisa Zarate of Edinburg, and Olivia Jordan of Californi;a and daughters, Florence and husband Joe Hernandez of Edna, Olga and husband Joe Lopez and Spring, Candido Reyes and his wife Theresa Zarate Benavides of Conroe, and Randy Benavides, of Spring; grandchildren Frankie Lopez, Ray Lopez, Gary Lopez, Brian Jeffrey Lopez, Migdalia Gomez, Carlos Benavides, Juan Lopez, Amanda Benavides, Mercedes Lopez, Daylin Lopez, Jeremiah Lopez and Alexis Lopez and 13 great-grandchildren and nine great-great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be at 9:30 a.m. followed by a funeral mass at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28  at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Edna.