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Lawrence Gonzales De La O', age 80, recently of Malvern, AR and formerly of California, died Wednesday, August 16, 2006, at his residence. He was born on March 3, 1926, in Dona Ana, NM, to the late Raymundo and Francesca Gonzales De La O'. Reared and receiving his early education in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM, he went on to earn his Associate of Arts Degree from East Los Angeles College. He was a Federal/State Auditor for the county of Los Angeles and was a Korean War Army veteran. He had been a resident of Malvern for the past 18 months, where he was a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Malvern. He is survived by his wife, Amelia De La O' of Malvern, to whom he was married on December 24, 1948; by a son, Marcos De La O' of New Jersey; by three daughters, Veronica and her husband, Ward Jenkins, of Kansas, Susan Taft and her husband, Richard, of Malvern, and Delia and her husband, Ralph Rubschlager, of Malvern; by brothers, Arthur and Benjamin De La O' of Albuquerque; by two sisters, Virginia Romero and Nora Rogers of California; a step-sister, Inez Foster; three grandchildren, Kathleen Taft Gatlin and her husband, Scott, and Zack and Caleb Jenkins; and a great-grandson, John Taft Gatlin. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at ten o'clock in Saturday morning, August 19, 2006, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Malvern with Father Linus Ukomadu officiating. Interment will follow in Rockport Memorial Gardens Cemetery under the direction of J.A. Funk Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be Richard Taft, Ralph Rubschlager, Marcos De La O', Scott Gatlin, Bill O'Keefe and Cary Young. In lieu of flowers, memorials are requested to San Secondo d'asti' Roman Catholic Church in Ontario, CA.
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