Consuelo "Connie" I. Mandel

Consuelo “Connie” Idalia Mandel, age 90, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Thursday, July 18th, 2024. Connie was the middle child of three daughters, born April 24, 1934 to Conrado and Isaura Martínez of Alice, Texas. 

After graduating from Alice High School, she married Alfred Mandel of Alice on August 12, 1951. Alfred was enlisted in the Army and they moved to New Orleans where he was stationed. In 1953, after Alfred completed his tour they moved back to Corpus Christi, Texas, where they purchased their first new home and raised six boys in it.

Connie was devoted to Jesus Christ, her husband, and her boys. She was committed to raising her sons in the Catholic faith instilling Christian values. She and Alfred did everything possible to attend every one of each boy’s school, scouting and team sports activities. When her sons became teenagers, she went to work for the Corpus Christi Independent School District. In 1977, after Alfred retired, they moved back to the family farm Alice. Connie then worked in the real estate title business, she later worked for the Jim Wells County District Court judge, and at the Jim Wells County District Clerk's office  retiring in 1998

Alfred and Connie adopted their first granddaughter, Jennifer Marie. After six boys, she finally got her daughter. She loved being a mother and was the world’s best at it. Connie also loved sports, especially basketball. She was a star basketball and volleyball athlete in high school. She often bragged to her grandchildren that she could beat all of their fathers in a game of HORSE on the basketball court in the driveway until they became bigger than she was. Also, when the time came, she proved the same by beating all of her grandchildren in the same game.

Connie’s family meant everything to her. She instilled Christian values into all of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren that each of them carries with them today. She taught us all to pray daily, and began and ended each of her days in prayer and her memories will never be forgotten. Connie was a Special Angel of God and lived in His Glory. 

Connie is preceded in death by her two sisters, Corina (Mike) Quintero and Rosie (Manuel) Lopez, her husband Alfred and her two oldest sons Alfred Jr. and James Conrad. 

She leaves behind to cherish her memories, her sons Bobby (Cristina), Rick (Carol), Gary (Dolly), Mark and Jennifer Mandel Hughes (Ivan). Her grandchildren Gianna Bella, Thaddeus Jude, and Mark Ivan, James Mandel Jr. (Whitney) and their children James III and Whitt, Austin Mandel (Lyla) and their son Henry, Louie Mandel (Tori) and their son Sebastian, Ruben Mandel, Alana Mandel-Massey (Steven) and their children Jones and Florence, Joseph Mandel (Savannah) and his children Daunte and Ariel, Marissa Mandel Maldonado (Manny) and their children Giancarlo, Giuliana, Gabriella, Gianluke, Marlene Mandel (Miriam) and their son Justin, Mariah Mandel (Ashley) and their daughter Elliott Rose, Markie Mandel Trevino (Jose) and their children Josiah and Jio, Angelina Mandel and many nephews and nieces. 

A special thanks to all the staff at The Premier Memory Care Unit and at Home instead for all the special loving care and attention they provided to Connie who they all affectionately called Grandma.

A Visitation will be held  on Tuesday, July 23, 2024 from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM with a Holy Rosary to be recited at 7:00 PM at Holmgreen Mortuary, 2061 E. Main St. Alice, Texas 78332. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 1:30 PM on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 801 S Reynolds St, Alice, TX 78332 with a Christian Burial to follow at Roselawn Memorial Park. 

Services are entrusted to Holmgreen Mortuary, 2061 East Main Street, Alice, Texas.

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