Juan Ruperto Anaya Marquez (2018)

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Posted By: Shirley Keating (email)
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:24

Pearson Funeral Home
Creston, IA

Juan Anaya Marquez

Juan Ruperto Anaya Márquez was born on March 27, 1956 in El Carmen, Hidalgo, México to Ignacio Anaya Sánchez and Carmen Márquez Reséndiz. He was baptized on April 4, 1956 in Polotitlán, Estado de México. Juan was called home to be with our Lord and Savior on Friday November 30, 2018 in his home in Corning, Iowa, at the age of sixty-two years. He was reunited with his Father (1960), Mother (1986), and sister Maria del Carmen (1964)
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Juan was the youngest of eight children: Maria del Carmen, Martha, Artemio, Gregorio, Jorge, Eduardo, and Ernestima. As a child his nickname was “the bright eyes or fearless Juan”. Childhood was full of mischievous events with his brothers and working hard to achieve greatness at an early age.

At the early age of four years his beloved father passed away. His education was completed at the age of twelve, due to lack of a secondary school. He then went to live with his sister Martha in México City, where he worked washing cars. At eighteen years of age he did his military service to México for one year. Then he worked for the water utilities department during the day and in the evening studied to become a dental technician.

Juan married Ana María Roldan on November 11, 1978 in Atlisco, Puebla. Of this union there would have been a baby boy, but child and mother passed on June 11, 1979. Juan married a second time with Cristina Vargas in Apo del Rosario, Michoacán. They welcomed a daughter Yaravi Anaya Lopez (1982) and son Omar Anaya Lopez (1984). This union was later dissolved on November 13, 1992.

Juan’s first trip to the United States was in 1983. He walked across the Río Grande finding refuge in Los Anglos, California. He worked as a day labor, completing various tasks. February 1984, was his second trip into the United States. This time he crawled through the famous tunnels that joined Mexico and California.

In January of 1985 he received his permanent Green Card. This was due to a new law by President Ronald Ragan. Juan then began studying for his United States Citizenship, a test of 99 questions pertaining to all government procedures and policies. He knew more about the USA than most US native born citizens.

Juan received his United States of America citizenship in Des Moines, Iowa on December 18, 1998. This was a major accomplishment of his life.

While in California, Juan was employed by an RV refrigeration company, which was later sold and the new owners retained Juan’s services. During this time Juan only spoke his native language, Spanish. He was given a Dodger cap, placed on an airplane and instructed to meet a gentleman with identical cap in Des Moines, Iowa. This was the beginning of a longstanding friendship with Roger Gifford. Juan relocated to Winterset, Iowa in March 1985. In the summer of 1996 the Winterset factory burnt to the ground, and Juan was instrumental in relocating and rebuilding Midwest Products Inc. in Corning, Iowa.

Juan and Mary would meet in August 1996. They were unified on July 20, 1998 and would renew their vows on November 25, 2018 in their home in Corning, Iowa.

May 2002, he would begin his employment with Noetic Cold in Mt Etna, Iowa. In April 2015 he would begin his employment with Adams County Electric.

Juan was an active member of the Corning Fire Department for 15 years and Auxiliary member thereafter. He cherished his beloved fire department, forming lifelong bonds with many members. Numerous items were custom made by Juan for the Department.

Juan’s brilliant talent of welding was out of this world. His welds resembled spread butter on steel. He could weld with wire, mig, tig, torch, and stainless steel. Enjoying the project challenges his friends would bring.

Juan is survived by his loving wife Mary Margaret; daughter Yaravi and son Omar of Ventura, California; step-daughter Judith (Jeremy) Butcher; two grandchildren Vicente and Averyle Butcher; siblings: Martha; Artemio; Gregorio (María Roldán); Jorge Eusebio (Margarita Contreras); Eduardo (Isabel Navarro); and María Teresa Ernestima (Cuauhtémoc Fernández), all of México City, México; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Preceding Juan in death were his parents: Ignacio Anaya Sánchez and Carmen Márquez Reséndiz; father-in-law and mother-in-law: Kenneth Dean and Esther Mable Smart; sister Maria del Carmen, brother-in-law Pedro Luis Solís Castro and sister-in-law Lidia Martínez; nephew: Norberto Vicente Gallardo Rodríguez; bother-in-laws Kennie Dean and Burdette Lee Smart.

Life is a river, you go with the flow. Where our lives lead us nobody knows. I know that one day we will all sail away on God's oceans where all rivers flow. God speed Juan Anaya Márquez until we meet again.

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