Please help Delia Ortega’s family lay her to rest peacefully

My name is Yvette and I am writing this on behalf of my boyfriend, Grumpy Ortega, and his sisters, Raquel and Adrianna, who need help laying their beautiful mother to rest. She wasn’t only a mother, she was a grandmother, soon to be a great-grandmother, a sister, a daughter, a loyal loving friend to only a few, and my mother-in-law as she referred to herself. But not just a mother-in-law in my eyes, a beautifully hearted mother-in-law as I refer to her.

We got to become very close after hours and hours of conversation, texting almost daily about everything. Or if she felt sad she’d text me because I’d always make her laugh. She always thanked me for making her son happy, but to me, it was the other way around. She was the little lady who just absolutely loved her family so very much. They are the ones that gave her life, even though she gave them life first. They are the reasons she woke up for every day. Amd for the first time in a really long time or atleast in the last 8 years since I’ve been included In their gatherings, Christmas time was a time I’ve never seen her glow with just happiness flowing inside her you couldn’t miss it surrounded by her kids all of her grand daughters and her children’s father there as well peacefully amongst eachother enjoying every little detail of the day as we all sat together opening gifts for Christmas. I remember looking up at everyone and just feeling the love they all had for eachother I could only imagine their times growing up that my boyfriend grumpy talks about all the time . His happy memories growing up with his 2 sisters and his parents is where he felt were his happiest of days, it was his safest spot to be as a child . Not everyone gets the family life like that and last Christmas I got a little glimpse of what he felt in some kind of way . Looking at his mom Delia she was just in a peaceful place that day enjoying a very happy moment In her life surrounded by the ones she loved more than anything else. I would love to know that as they lay her to rest she feels that same peace and love she felt that day. Please find it in your heart to help grumpy , Raquel and Adrianna Ortega know that their mama is peacefully resting . I also ask for your heart felt prayers for the family in their time of grief. They will appreciate any and all support including prayers to get them through this difficult time . We thank you in advance from the bottoms of our hearts.

She had been wanting to move to Ventura County from LA County, but there were always little setbacks. It was going to happen when the Lord allowed it to. It was just taking a little longer because she had got Covid and it really affected her health in a not so good way. She battled with diabetes for many years and had for the most part had it under control for a while. Then just recently had what she thought was a bout with high blood sugar and went to the hospital, but in fact, it was a clogged artery to her heart and she had to have a stent placed.

She seemed to have recovered pretty well after that but it brought on other issues that were exacerbated with her diabetes. She finally was good enough to be sent to a rehab to fully recover. In the recent days, she ended up back at home. Which at first we thought was great news. Then her daughter Raquel, who is her eldest daughter and the one who tends to most all family matters, reached out to her mom earlier last week and talked to her and she sounded like she was in good spirits saying she felt good and went on talking about her cats. To me, it would’ve also sounded like things were definitely getting better, at least a little better.

As for her, Raquel and a couple of others reached out the next couple of days and no response. As it came to be and what no one would ever want to have to hear, and I say this with a very heavy heart, is that she had passed away in her home from what seemed like it was a very sudden unexpected way even to her by the way she was found.

It’s the most heartbreaking news to have to hear about anyone’s mother but when it’s your own, it is not only heartbreaking but traumatizing, to her kids and all her loved ones who started to hear the news of her passing. Delia had a beautiful soul and the thought of no longer having her here to call or text or visit with to have Mother’s Day to celebrate with her, birthday she shares with her eldest daughter Raquel. I could go on and on about how much she will be missed.

As for her children and grandchildren and soon to be great-grandchild, the loss is far greater than just missing her on special occasions and the days in between. It’s about the pain they endure when she’s not there when they want to share good news or even bad news or they need advice from their mama or her granddaughters want to just see how she’s doing or want to talk about their lives and the goings-on that Delia just loved to hear about. Those are all the things they will look back on as they lay her to rest.

The devastation it’s brought on to her son Grumpy, who she adored, he was never prepared for. My prayers will be with them through this very difficult time. I pray that they can get the financial support they need so that they can let their mama finish her journey to heaven peacefully as they mourn the loss of their dearly beloved mother.