Cedar Park
Maria Luisa Contreras de Lafuente
2022
Maria Luisa Contreras de Lafuente, "Marilu" to her friends, passed away peacefully in her sleep at home in Cedar Park, Texas on May 7, 2022. She was born on January 3, 1933, the second of four children, to Rolando Contreras & Maria Luisa Gonzalez de Contreras in San Salvador, El Salvador. Early in life, she moved with her parents to the port of Tampico, Mexico and it is here where she met Jorge de Lafuente Delgado, the man who would be her husband for 46 years. In 1973, she left Mexico to follow her husband to Los Angeles where he was posted by PEMEX as a consular commercial attach?. Interestingly, they brought along their children, Jorge and Emma, then aged six and five,...