On Monday, August 26, 2024, Armandina F. Martinez, loving wife, daughter, sister and aunt, passed away peacefully at the age of 68.

Armandina, known to many as Mandy, was born on February 17, 1956, in Edinburg, TX to Asencion Martinez and Manuel Treviño Flores. The thirteenth child of sixteen children, Mandy was especially remembered as a docile and obedient child from an early young age. From a tender young age, Mandy had a strong compassion and benevolence for others, which earned her the great responsibility of helping her mother run the household and care for the needs of her older and younger siblings, while her siblings all worked on the family farm and in cotton fields.

Mandy only completed the 6th grade in school and stayed home by her parent’s side to continue helping them in any way that she could. She then went on to complete her schooling and earned her GED. After her father’s death in November of 1974, Mandy left home briefly, to Albuquerque, NM in pursue of a nursing degree at the Albuquerque Job Corps Center For Women, and earned certificates of completion in Cultural Awareness and Health Education. She then returned back home to Mission, TX to care for her ailing mother until her eventual death in August of 1979.

Mandy then relocated to Arlington, TX and worked briefly at the AT&T Dallas Cowboys Stadium, Power Packaging of Texas, where she eventually met the love of her life and later in a nursing home to further her education. Acacio and Armandina married in 1987 and bought a home and settled in Arlington, TX for the next 33 years until his death in June of 2020.

Mandy had a medical condition called Fibromyalgia early on in her early adult life that restricted her physically from working outside of the home; however, none of that stopped her from living her life to the fullest, fulfilling her wifely duties, and being a loving, suppotive wife to her husband. On a daily basis she could be seen pushing herself around her home in an office chair to get the cooking, laundry, and cleaning done to maintain her home. She poured love into everything that she did and made her house into a home.

Mandy loved to sew, cook and bake, She loved music, especially Tejano and Country music. She loved to dance with her siblings and husband back in her earlier years. She is especially remembered having loved birds of every kind, but her favorite were parakeets and love birds. She loved flowers, anything hearts, the color red, permanent markers, and duct tape or clear tape. Almost everything in her home had permanent marker markings or had some kind of tape on it.

She will be dearly missed by her two sisters, the numerous nieces, nephews great-nieces and great-nephews she leaves behind and whose lives she’s touched with her sweet spirit, wisdom and affectionate nature. Mandy is survived by her sisters Noelia Mendoza and Trinidad Mendoza, and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great- nephews. She’s preceded in death by her husband, Acacio Martinez, their baby boy and thirteen brothers and sisters.

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Funeral Services for Armandina will be held Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at Kane Funeral Home. A Rosary will begin at 1:00 PM, followed by the service. Father Glenn Whewell officiating. Interment will immediately follow the service in the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery, Juniper Heights Section. After the burial there will be a reception back at the Kane Funeral Home Reception Hall.

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Kane Funeral Home was been entrusted with arrangements.