August 28, 1938 - August 15, 2025 (age 86)

Joaquina Reyes Noriega passed away peacefully on Friday, August 15, 2025, at Logan Regional Hospital, surrounded by her loving family, after a long and courageous battle with leukemia.

Joaquina, affectionately known as Jackie or Yaya by her family and friends, was born on August 26, 1938, in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, Mexico, to Francisca Reyes and José de Jesús Saucedo. She was the youngest of ten children.

At a young age, she moved to El Paso, TX, where she met her first husband, Cecil Mora Noriega. They were blessed with two children: Cecil E. Noriega and Frances Noriega Munoz. Though their marriage ended in 1972, Jackie later found love again and married Frank Gonzales on July 5, 1976. With our mother’s passing, there is a hole in our h

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