December 12 2015: BENAVIDES, Guadalupe Del Carmen

Guadalupe Del Carmen Benavides (Age 60)

On Thursday, December 10, 2015, of Silver Spring, MD. Beloved wife of Celso Melara Mejicanos; mother of Celso Melara and Brian Melara; daughter of Blanca Etelbina de Benavides and the late Angel O. Benavides; sister of Oscar Orlando , Rigoberto Antonio, Sonia Maribel Blanca Estela and the late Herbert Ovidio Benavides. Also survived by numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. Relatives and friends may call at Collins Funeral Home, 500 University Boulevard West, Silver Spring, MD, (Valet Parking), Thursday, December 17 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. and at St. Catherine Laboure Church, Veirs Mill & Claridge Roads, Wheaton, MD, on Friday, December 18 from 9:30 to 10 a.m., where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Interment Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA. immediately following.