Maritza Carmona was born on April 12, 1960 in the city of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. She was called to The Lord’s presence, surrounded by her husband and children, at 10:30 a.m. on March 22, 2023.
She was raised in Brooklyn, New York where she attended Thomas Jefferson High School until her senior year when her family relocated to Camuy, Puerto Rico. She graduated from Escuela Superior Pablo Avila in Camuy, and attended the InterAmerican University.
She joined the United States Army on July 03, 1979 and was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany as a Personnel Records Specialist. Subsequently, she was transferred to Fort Eustis, Virginia where she met (then Captain) Waldemar E. Carmona and they married on November 10, 1983. Together they completed a thirty-year Army military career.
Maritza was dedicated first and foremost to the love, nurture, care and overall well-being of her family: her husband, Wally; her children, Misty, Eddie and Christina; and her grandchildren Odin and Zoe.
Given her husband’s military duties, it was Maritza who attended to the family’s needs: raising the kids, rounding out their education, helping with their homework, shopping for clothes, comforting them when they were sick, taking them to their various sporting events, serving as a Girl Scout leader and Sunday School teacher, maintaining the household, and doing a myriad of other responsibilities associated with military life. She served with the family in Japan, Panama, Puerto Rico and multiple locations throughout the United States. On her birthday, April 12, 2002, they retired from the U.S. Army and settled in Orlando.
It was a close Army friend of the family who said “Maritza brought ‘Light’ into every room she entered and into the heart of every person she met.”
We, her husband and children, add this: “Mom was our All, our Rock and Inspiration. What we are today, we owe it to her.”
Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 10:00 am at Newcomer Funeral Home – East Orlando Chapel, 895 S. Goldenrod Rd, Orlando, FL 32822 with Msgr. Rafael Matienzo, US Army Chaplain and spiritual advisor to the Carmona family for over 25 years, officiating.
Visitation with the family will precede the service on Wednesday from 9:00 am – 10:00 am at the funeral home.
Committal services and interment with full military honors will follow on Wednesday at 2:00 pm at Cape Canaveral National Cemetery, 5525 US-1, Mims, FL 32754.