{"id":119802,"date":"2026-01-11T18:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=119802"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:47:56","slug":"luz-esther-ortiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/11\/luz-esther-ortiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Luz Esther Ortiz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Luz Esther Ortiz, age 88 of Inverness, FL passed away peacefully and quietly at home on January 11, 2026.&nbsp; She was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico on March 6, 1937 to the late Eusebio and Adela Sanchez and came to this area in 1972 from Paterson, NJ.&nbsp; She was a master seamstress specializing in draperies and window treatments. She was a sweet and loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother who enjoyed gardening, cooking, and listening to Latin Music and dancing. She was a member of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church attending church services on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is survived by her husband of 67 years, Audaz \u201cEddie\u201d Ortiz; 2 Sons, Erving \u201cYank\u201d Ortiz and his wife Wendy, and Dennis Ortiz, both of Inverness; 2 brothers, Carlos Santana of Port St. Lucie, and Edwin Santana from Havelock, NC; 4 grandchildren, Anthony and his wife Meghan, Evan, Ethan, and Emily; and 1 great grandchild Nathan.&nbsp; She was preceded in death by her sister Elizabeth \u201cLizzie\u201d Alexander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mass of Christian Burial will be on Monday, January 19<sup>th<\/sup> at 1:00 PM at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church with Fr. Mike Suszynski, celebrant. Burial will follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery.&nbsp; There will be a visitation on Monday morning from 10:00-12:30 at the Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home before leaving for the church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luz Esther Ortiz, age 88 of Inverness, FL passed away peacefully and quietly at home on January 11, 2026.&nbsp; She was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico on March 6, 1937 to the late Eusebio and Adela Sanchez and came to this area in 1972 from Paterson, NJ.&nbsp; She was a master seamstress specializing in draperies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":119803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119804,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119802\/revisions\/119804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}