Epifania Grimaldo Sierra

Services for Epifania Grimaldo Sierra, 88, Friona, Texas, will be at 11 a.m. today at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Bovina. Burial will be in Bovina Cemetery.Mrs. Sierra died Tuesday, April 18, 2006, at Parmer County Community Hospital in Friona.She was born April 7, 1918, in Mexico. She moved from Friona to Bovina in 2000.Mrs. Sierra was a homemaker and a member of St. Ann’s Catholic Church.She married Vicente Sierra. He died July 11, 1989.Five sons, Rumaldo, Eliazar, David, Eulalio and Jesus Sierra, also died earlier.Survivors include five daughters, Apolonia Murrillo, Friona, Monica Sierra and Dolores Ruiz, both of Bovina, and Paulina Cera and Francisca Sierra, both of Lawrence, Kan.; 13 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.Blackwell Funeral Home in Friona is in charge of arrangements.