We love you! Our loving mother, wife, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. Misty Irene Cruz was born May, 5 1965 in Pocatello, Idaho to Karen and Orvillle Bagby. Where she presided until moving to Tulare, California where she met her soul mate, Noel Cruz, and married July 2, 1993. She lived in Utah for the past eighteen years where she passed away August 15, 2013 at age forty-eight.
Our time was cut short due to extended struggle with illness. She passed away at home peacefully in her bed. She was a strong courageous woman. She was a valued member of the community and was often involved in American Cancer Society, Relay for life, playing with her grandchildren, online gaming (pogo), collecting lighthouses and coins, puzzles, gadget and gizmo shopping, BBQ, and spending time with her family. She is survived in death by: husband Noel Cruz, daughters Shante Rice (Eric Rice, Anastasia McLelland, grandchildren: Syra Rice and Morgan Greene , sisters: Coral Bagby and Cindy Jones, brothers: Jaime Bagby and Brad Pacitti, and step mother Cheryle Dysart. She in preceded in death by her father Orville Bagby, mother Karen Bagby Bagby, and brother Mori Bagby.
A celebration of her life will be held Monday August 19th at 1:00pm at Westlake Ward LDS church at 3250 W 3100 S.
You will be missed.
