Mary Ann Parra

Mary Ann Parra was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on July 27,1928 to Fidelia and Meliton Chavez.  She died on July 23, 2024. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband Quirino (who she was married to for 55 years at the time of his death in 2004), daughter Diana and son Roberto.  She is survived by her 6 children, David, Dan (Cindy), Steve (Kyle), Tomas (Pam), Loretta (John) and Andrea (Peter); 9 grandchildren, Christopher (Julie), Nicholas (Julia), Marisa (Steve), Stephanie (Michael), Eric (Leah), Jaclyn, Danielle (Tim), Joey and Kendall; 14 great-grandchildren; Jonah, Connor, Logan, Leonidas, Tyberius, Lily, Levi, Zoey, Noa, Addyson, Kinsley, Taz, Mateo and Luca.

Mary Ann was a stay-at-home mom for 13 years and returned to work for the State of California Department of Food & Agriculture as a secretary.  She worked there for about 17 years and was loved and appreciated by her co-workers. They gave her a grand retirement party attended by so many.  It was so good to hear all the wonderful things they had to say about her.  Many called her “Mom” in the office because of the way she cared about everyone.

Mary Ann loved her family first, traveling with her husband, Frank Sinatra, Christmas, shopping, going to the movies, and chocolate.

She was a woman of faith and big on prayer.  She was a long-time parishioner of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church.

Mary Ann was “the card lady”.  She was always sending out cards for all the occasions. She really should have had stock in Hallmark.

Mary Ann will be remembered most for her big loving heart and kindness.  She will be greatly missed by all.

Her Service will be at St. Mary’s Funeral Home at, 6509 Fruitridge Rd., Sacramento, CA on August 14th, 2024 at 1:00pm, Internment at 2:00pm and a reception to follow at the same location.  In Lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Alzheimer’s Association at Alz.org.