Pete Zuniga Jr.


Entered into rest - February 10, 2012



Visitation:

Tuesday, February 14 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Catholic Church of the Annunciation





Service:

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:00 A.M. Catholic Church of the Annunciation





Interment:


Mt. Olivet Cemetery

Pete Zuniga Jr. of Mt. View Drive, Paris KY died this past Friday February 10th, 2012. Peter was born August 23, 1914 to Pete & Dolores Zuniga Sr. near Mission San Juan Capistrano in Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas. The son of a carpenter, and the oldest of eight children, he attended Mission San Francisco de la Espada. He left school after graduating from the eighth grade to help support the family. He worked at a neighborhood grocery store, and later as an apprentice potter before joining the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at the age of nineteen. In the CCC he worked forestry in the mountains near Santa Fe, New Mexico during the Great Depression. In 1939, while working as a potter, he married his childhood sweetheart, Lucia Farias and started a family in the same mission neighborhood where he was born. Pete helped with repairs of the famed San Jose Mission and was President of the Holy Name Society for his parish. He went to San Antonio Technical School, San Pedro Aircraft School, and Radio Repair School. He opened up a shop repairing radios, and later, the first televisions to enter the market. In 1952, he started a career in civil service as a quality control technician at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas. He was transferred to the Fort Worth Quarter Master Depot in 1957, and then selected the assignment to the Lexington Bluegrass Army Depot in Kentucky in 1964. His career spanned thirty years with many temporary assignments checking equipment at various military installations. He served his country and his faith as a devout Catholic. After moving to Paris, Kentucky in 1964, he became, once again, an active member of the Holy Name Society at the Church of the Annunciation in Paris, Ky. and also with that church's own local Boy Scouts of America chapter, troop 67. Pete was Boy Scout Leader from 1965 - 1990 and was a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. Pete leaves behind his beautiful wife, Lucy, after seventy-two years of marriage, thirteen children and their loving and supportive spouses: Peter Francis & Carron Zuniga, Paul John & Twila Zuniga, David Daniel Zuniga, Lucia Dolores & Ronald Sparks, Irene Mary Farias-Zuniga, Samuel Andrew & Josie Zuniga, Theresa Cecilia & Tevis Gray, Gerard Anthony & Jill Zuniga, Susan Christina & Clifford Purcell, Joseph Christopher & Jessica Zuniga, Patricia Ann & Andrew Slonkosky, Mary Louise and Edward Slonkosky, Adam Rene & Samantha Zuniga, Pete's brother Mariano &Guadalupe Zuniga. He is survived by sixty-four grandchildren, sixty-five great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren, and finally, all the wonderful friends he has come to know over his ninety-seven years. Lord has blessed us so much with our father, grandfather, great grandfather and great, great grandfather, Pete Zuniga, Jr. He has gone ahead of us and waits for us in Heaven. He plans to greet us all, after our work here is done, and the Lord bids us to His side. How blessed we have truly been to have known him. We thank you Lord. Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at the Catholic Church of the Annunciation by Rev. John Curtis with burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Honorary bearers will be Eddie Woods, Goebel Crump, Sam Balsemo, Henry Coons, Bill Langfels, and Eddie Gorey. Visitation will be 5:00 to 8:00pm Tuesday at the church. Should you like to make a donation in lieu of flowers please feel free to make a donation to the Church of the Annunciation at 1007 Main Street, Paris, KY 40361.

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