Dominga Acosta

Services are scheduled at 2:00 p.m. Friday, May. 20, at Terpening Son Chapel for Maria Dominga Acosta, 801 W. Cannon Ave., Artesia, New Mexico.

Mrs. Acosta, 91, died Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at Artesia General Hospital.

Paul Franco will officiate at the services with burial at Woodbine Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Jesse Acosta Jr., Vince Ontiveros, Antonio Grado, Epi Acosta, Amos Grado and Trini Grado. Visitation will be at Terpening Son Mortuary beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday.

Dominga was born May 25, 1919 in Ruidosa, Texas the daughter of Alejandro Porras and Josefa Fuentes Porras. She came to Artesia in 1940 from Mexico.

On Aug. 18, 1940 she was married to Manuel M. Acosta in Mexico. He preceded her in death Dec. 15, 2007.

She was a housewife and a christian.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, a brother and four sisters.

Survivors include daughter Mary Franco and husband Paul of Artesia sons Manuel Acosta and wife Helen of Artesia, Epemino Acosta and wife Gloria of Roswell, N.M., Jesse Acosta and wife Emma of Artesia, Erminio Acosta of Roswell, Salvador Acosta and wife Lydia of Midland, Texas, and Mack Acosta of Artesia brother Jesus Porras of Ojinaga, Mexico sister Juliana Porras of Ft. Stockton, Texas 12 grandchildren, 15 greatgranchildren, and a greatgreatgrandson numerous nieces, nephews and many friends.