{"id":447002,"date":"2026-09-25T04:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447002\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T04:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T04:18:12","slug":"san-antonio-mourns-death-of-h-e-b-partner-known-as-angel-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447002\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio mourns death of H-E-B partner known as ‘angel on earth’"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio is grieving the death of a longtime\u00a0H-E-B partner, Suhad Laila Hernandez, who became a familiar face to generations of shoppers at a Far West Side store.<\/p>\n

Hernandez, affectionately known by many as \u201cSue the sample lady,\u201d died on Sept. 16 after spending two decades as an\u00a0H-E-B partner. She was 82 years old, according to her obituary<\/a>. Hernandez worked at the store at Grissom and Tezel roads, where shoppers say her warmth made her a memorable part of the community.<\/p>\n

“She was the heart and soul of the HEB on Grissom and Tezel,” Roland Aguirre wrote in a Sept. 17 social media post<\/a>. “She was always so kind to me and the guys from work. May she rest in peace. Angel on Earth.”<\/p>\n

“She always loved to see the girls come in HEB through the years as they grew up and catch up on how they were doing,” Naomi\u00a0Ponciano added in a Facebook\u00a0post<\/a>. “She was such a kind and wonderful person.”<\/p>\n

News of her death prompted an outpouring of affection from customers and former coworkers alike, with H-E-B even setting up a memorial<\/a> for Hernandez inside the store. H-E-B representatives also remembered Hernandez as someone who embodied the company’s culture of caring.<\/p>\n

“Our H-E-B family is deeply saddened by Sue\u2019s passing. In her 20 years with H-E-B, she touched the lives of so many Partners and customers,” representatives wrote in a statement to the Express-News.<\/p>\n

“While Sue recently retired from the company, she remained someone who was committed to people and her community. Forever a Partner, Sue represented the spirit of\u00a0H-E-B and will be missed by many.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio is grieving the death of a longtime\u00a0H-E-B partner, Suhad Laila Hernandez, who became a familiar face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-447002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447002","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=447002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}