Olivia Garcia Pino

1933 – 2025 Olivia Garcia Pino, age 91, a life long resident of Belen, NM, peacefully passed away at her daughters’ home, Cindy Sanchez in Adelino, NM. Services will take place on Friday, April 25, 2025 at Our Lady of Belen Catholic Church. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. with a Rosary to be recited at 10:00 a.m. with the Funeral Mass to be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Olivia will be laid to rest with her late husband Eusebio Pino at the Santa Fe National Cemetery on Monday, April 28, 2025 at 12:30 p.m. Pallbearers will be her loving grandchildren, Karrie and Ricardo Sanchez, Robert, Justin, Jeremy, David and Jacob Pino and Dante Renteria. Olivia was a member of our Lady of Belen Catholic Church. She loved the outdoors and she never missed a chance to go fishing and camping with family and friends. Her kids always remembered going to Barstow, CA every year with their mom and dad to visit family. Olivia was a bus driver for the Belen school district for 33 years. She was known as a stern but fair bus driver and throughout the years the kids who were already grown approach her to see if she remembered them. Olivia was an awesome cook and she passed down her recipes to her daughter Cindy and to anyone else who would ask for them. Eusebio and Olivia were inseparable and everything they did they did together. Olivia loved to sing and she passed that passion on to her children who up until her last days she would break out in song. Her most memorable song was “Some where over the rainbow” along with many Spanish classics. Olivia was preceded in death by her Loving husband, Eusebio Pino; son, Leroy; parents, Antonio and Fermina Madrid Garcia; son in law, Richard Sanchez; siblings, Melina Chavez (Adan), Amalia Chavez (Arturo), Marcelino (Helen), Leo Garcia and Priscilla Gabaldon. She is survived by her two children, her loving son Bobby and the mother of their three boys Barbara Wilmore, loving and devoted daughter and caregiver for many years, Cindy Sanchez; daughter in law Marlene Pino Chavez Zamora (Marty); eight loving grandchildren and her many loving great grandchildren; her siblings, Maryanne Abeyta, Tony (Oralia), and Pat Garcia; sister in law, Trudy Garcia; and many loving nieces and nephews. A special thank you to Raquel Amestoy for helping care for Olivia. Please sign Olivia’s online tribute at www.romerofuneralhomenm.com Romero Funeral Home, 609 N. Main St., Belen, NM.

Olivia Garcia Pino

March 30, 1933 - March 28, 2025