Dionicio Blanco Obituary

Another year has passed since you were called home. It does not seem that long ago. With every passing year my love for you remains close in my heart, and the memories of you even closer. Continue your eternal rest in peace. Love and miss you, padrino.

Padrino Nicho, another year has passed since our Lord God has called you home; another year that you are remembered often and missed a whole lot by us on Earth. The memories of you has kept you alive in our hearts, and more so now that you have your beloved Ramona, and Norma. You are so loved. Prayers for your continued rest in peace.

Hello padrino. You were probably smiling as you watched me visiting you from the road on that last heavy snowfall in March. I wasn't being lazy. I just couldn't see where you were under all the snow. I took a mental image of the beautiful panoramic view that day. The next time this month I had my grandkids and the latest, it was raining and again I had my grandkids. I think of you regularly especially when I visit my mother close by. I have lit a candle for you with prayer for eternal rest. I love you as I love the Blanco Family...always and forever. I will treat you to some coffee on the next visit. Do you take that with some whisky?

I was at my Madrina, Julia DeLaRosa's 100th year old birthday Saturday and there was a gentleman with a guitar that played and sang, "Las Mañanitas" for her. As I sat next to her listening to the song, I could not help but think of Dad the year his brothers surprised him with their recording of themselves singing, "Las Mañanitas to him on tape the day of his birthday years earlier. All of a sudden tears started streaming down my face uncontrollably leaving me very embarrassed. I felt like running out of the room. It seemed as if all eyes were on me instead of the Birthday Girl. I felt terrible but once the tears started rolling from my eyes there was no stopping them. I miss my Dad so much!
Thank you for all the wonderful memories. I love you Dad and miss you very much!

recalling my childhood with nicho blanco and family: when i was 4 yrs old, my padrino
nicho was so tickled seeing melva react in a jealous way
by throwing herself across the bed to cry because he sat me
on his lap and expressed how
cute i was that he took me
over so i could see melva was
upset; i learned how to play
card games as we watched
john wayne movies with him n
norma in the many years I slept over; my brothers n I were included being taken to
cal park to play catch at the play ground; he demonstrated
his style in playing guitar; when
he would eat ice-cream cones
down to miniature size and try
to swap with jr's cone; when he
was entertained by melva,
norma, n me as we lip synked
and pretend to be the
supremes, "stop in the name of
love"; when he took me to the
hospital as a kid when sick n
my father was at work; when
he called jr, "jr. barnes" as a
toddler- only we know why; he
took us many times to bowen
when it was really cold or we
were running late; made me
laugh when i learned he called
his car, "bessy"; he was
always so coool with us kids
that we could be open with him
and be ourselves; he was
always so attentive, respectful,
loving, happy, and smiling.
from a little girl to an adult, up
until our last meet, he always
looked at me with such
pleasure followed by his
famous smile and sparkle in
his eyes and always said,
"hello ninfita". nicho was such
a loving father and husband. i
was so blessed to be part of
the family as a close friend. he
will always be in my heart as
will be the rest of the family
with great love and admiration.
Prayers and may my padrino Nicho rest in eternal peace, Amen.

May my Godfather and great friend rest in peace forever in God's blessed kingdom. I hope he helps lighten our sorrows with the many years of beautiful memories and bring to our lips and hearts the same smile he wore so well and radiate the wath as in the sparkle in his eyes. I am here for you, Madrina, Cynthia, Melva, Norma, Dionicio Jr and families. I loved my padrino and continue to love him in memory as I love all of you.

October 31, 2011
I cannot believe that tomorrow it will be a year since you have been gone.I miss you so much! I receive comfort remembering at times how relaxed and content you were with life. You seemed to love everything about your life! In your older years you would look back on life and wished you could have lived the whole thing over again just the way you did the first time around, changing nothing. Wow! May we all come to learn contentment in life as you showed with your life. My hope is to see you again one day. For a believer in Christ, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. My hope is in the free gift of salvation given to us by the Lord Christ Jesus who has offered it to everyone who chooses to believe by faith in the work of the cross. He gave his life and paid the penalty for our sins with his blood so that we would not have to stand before God's wrath and judgement in our sins. All we need to do is receive his offer and turn from our sins to live for Him. As God's word states, our faith in Christ is what saves us from this judgement and total separation from God. My hope and faith is first of all, looking for the blessed hope and appearing of our Great God and Savior and second... that one day I will see you again. Love you and terribly miss you Dad. Melva

Dad, I will always remember you making sure we went too school, after you worked all night welding, you would make sure we all climbed into a warm car and drove us too school in the winters, and picked up as many as we could on the way to Bowen; dad you smile and silly quotes; dueces never loses; thats a horse of a different color; who dare say who dare when I say who dare; I am going to Texas with two of my friends, dad who is that; "me, myself, and I!; your wisdom of teaching me and Ninfie how too play pool was lots of laughs; when you told Ninfie to pull back when she hits the bottom on the white ball, so after she hit the bottom of the ball she literally jumped back; and you said oh boy this is going to take longer than I thought, we laughed so hard! And my children had lots of fun, playing cards, checkers that no one could ever beat you, and fishing. The day I beat you in checkers was at the hospital, that was when it hit me, I knew you were sick but I never thought you would ever lose; and when you lost you were shocked and I said, I cheated when you were not looking! Dad said I know I let you cheat, when in reality I did not, however life is precious and life is short, treasure your loved ones, I pray I will see my dad in heaven when I get there, he will be fishing with Adan, much love for you dad, we will take care of mommy-Norma

Grandpa,
Thanks to you and Grandma for all of the many fun childhood memories which include: taking us to Shakey's on Friday nights, going to Pullman and Schaefer Lake. Thanks for the many hours of catch. I will always remember you as I raise my kids and will try to spend time with them like you used to with us. I will miss you and think about you often.

I was truly blessed to have my Grandpa Nicho as my grandfather. I remember from a very young age him teaching me the art of mapping out and attending garage sales. Good times! I will always remember his laugh and contageous smile and how there could never be enough jokers when we played cards and how Rummy 500 somehow turned to Rummy 1000 with all those jokers. I remember taking a 4 day road trip to California with my family and Grandpa Nicho and how we thought he was going to have a heart attack in Carlsbad Cavern, but of course the Lord had other plans for him! You will be greatly missed Grandpa. Thanks for all the wonderful memories.

In all the years that I had known my fatherinlaw he taught me two things.
His words of wisdom were:

"Cada cabeza es un mundo" which means, every head is it's own world.

and two......

"I would rather have someone be upset with me for not borrowing them money than for me to be upset with them for not paying me back."

Recalling one of his many expressions:
"That a boy cowboy"

I will keep the memory of your humor alive in my own world (mi cabeza).

Hold those dear memories close and write them down for your children and their children that they may know and remember him through your experiences with him. Legacies of love and integrity are precious things to leave behind.
Love & Prayers for you,

I will always remember Nicho, his kindness and the smile that never left his face, yes that is the way I will remember him.

I know how proud he was of all of you, and how much he loved you all I recall that he always treated me and my siblings as if we part of the family, for a while I actually thought I was your cousin..

I traveled to Rio Grande last week and as I drove through the palm trees and orange orchards that lined the road I thought very much about your father and how much he loved being here.

And as the sun rose in the sky that morning I looked out into that horizon and imagined that Nicho was out there, fishing at his favorite spot and reeling in that big one and of course, smiling.

I didn't have the pleasure of knowing Dionicio, but as a friend of Melva, I want to express our sorrow for the loss of her beloved father. We are praying for the peace that passes all understanding for the family.
Love,
Don & Joyce Jackson

Dad, The years of patience and encouragement that you gave me will never be forgotten. Your unconditional love will always be remembered. My birthday will never be the same seeing that you celebrated yours two days after mine. You will always be in my life in spirit. You are and will be greatly missed. I thank God for allowing me to have experienced such a wonderful and loving father in my life.