{"id":113740,"date":"2026-01-07T05:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/113740\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:15:27","slug":"noel-mendez-sr-obituary-lubbock-avalanche-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/113740\/","title":{"rendered":"Noel Mendez Sr. Obituary &#8211; Lubbock Avalanche-Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Noel Mendez Sr. 49 years of age of Levelland passed away on Friday Jan. 2nd, 2026 in Lubbock surrounded by all of his loving family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Funeral Services: will be held on Friday Jan. 9th, 2026 at 3:00 P.M. at St. Michael&#8217;s Catholic Church in Levelland<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Officiating: Rev. Dennis Marcus and Deacon Frankie Ruiz  Music by: Johnny Vasquez<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Interment: City of Levelland Cemetery <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Visitation will be held on Jan. 7th, &amp; 8th, 2026 from 9AM until 9PM at the funeral home Chapel<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Rosary: Thursday evening 6PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Survivors:  Spouse of 33 yrs.: Judy Mendez<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Daughter:  Vanessa Camila (Damuel) Mendez<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Sons:  Noel Jr. (Destinee) Mendez, John J.P. (Lexie) Perez, Aaron Noel (Calcee) Mendez<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Grandchildren: 16  Great-Grandchildren: 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Sister: April Martinez<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Brother: David (Susie) Mendez <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-as8hyk css-9l3uo3\">Under the Loving Care of Head Duarte Funeral Home and Staff of Levelland<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-1xsp3sk css-9l3uo3\">Posted online on January 06, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 css-1ncapy4 css-9l3uo3\">Published in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noel Mendez Sr. 49 years of age of Levelland passed away on Friday Jan. 2nd, 2026 in Lubbock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-113740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}