Eluteria G. Salazar

Eluteria G. Salazar

EDINBURG – Eluteria G. Salazar, 101, passed away Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg.

Eluteria was born in Martindale, Texas on April 18, 1925, to Lazaro and Francisca Gutierrez, she was the oldest of 6 children. At a young age, Eluteria became a migrant farm worker picking cotton with her parents and siblings throughout the state of Texas.  Later, she married Aristeo Salazar and began her own family and gave birth to 11 children. She continued the migrant farmworker way of life and traveled throughout the northern part of the United States. They worked in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, Idaho, Wisconsin, and South Dakota, where they picked sugar beets, cherries, strawberries, blueberries, asparagus, cucumbers, and potatoes. Throughout the hardships of being a migrant farmworker, Eluteria always instilled the value of hard work and perseverance to help secure a better life for her family. She constantly encouraged her loved ones to be kind and loving to each other, which was a staple to keeping her family together, especially during the hardest of times.

Eluteria G. Salazar will be remembered as always enjoying the outdoors, especially cultivating and gardening the many fruit and flowering plants that surrounded her home. Later in life, she truly showed her passion for the sport of fishing. If the word “fishing” was mentioned, she was quick to get her fishing rod ready and have her sun hat on her head.

Eluteria is preceded in death by her parents, Lazaro and Francisca Gutierrez; five siblings, Atanacia G. Ayala, Gregoria Bustos, Jose Tomas Gutierrez, Susanna G. Teposte, and Rosa Gutierrez; three children, Ismael Salazar, Juan Salazar, and Maria Teresa Flores; a grandchild, Placido Flores; and four great-grandchildren. 

Mrs. Salazar is survived by eight of her children; San Juanita Salazar Gamboa, Lydia Salazar, Benito (Yolanda) Salazar, Baldemar (Cecilia) Salazar, Maria Salazar, Jose Salazar, Jesus Salazar, and David Salazar; 19 grandchildren; 49 great-grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren; niece, Elvia Yapez; and other numerous nieces and nephews.

Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. with a 6 p.m. rosary on Monday, June 22, 2026, at Memorial Funeral Home, 208 E. Canton in Edinburg, Texas. Funeral service will take place at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at Holy Family Catholic Church in Edinburg, 1302 East Champion St. in Edinburg. Interment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Edinburg.

Funeral services are under the direction of Memorial Funeral Home in Edinburg.