Carmen M. Velez Nieves Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Mami, Granny, we will always love you, miss you, and you will be in our minds… Chopy, Robert, Luly (Rubilee), and Edgar Carmen “Granny/Abuela” Velez Nieves of Bayamon, Puerto Rico died Tuesday September 3, 2019 at the Denver Hospice Inpatient Care Center in Denver, Colorado. Carmen lived most of her life in Puerto Rico. Her work was varied from owning a small deli business to secretarial work for two wholesale candy companies on the island. She was widowed when her late husband Zenon Mercado passed in 1999. She lived the last 15 years of her life in Virginia with her daughter. She very much enjoyed attending the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses weekly meetings, eating out, and shopping at secondhand stores. Carmen was an excellent and loving mother, working hard to ensure the success and happiness of her two children. She was very close to them and dedicated to their lives. She will be greatly missed by her daughter, Carmen, and all who knew and loved her. Carmen had two children, Ruben Rivera and Carmen Seeley. She is survived by her daughter Carmen “Chopy” Seeley of Virginia and by her grandchildren: Robert Seeley of Thornton, CO; Rubilee Clayborn of Dale City, VA; and Edgar Seeley of Blacksburg, VA. “Abuela” as she was called by her eight (8) great grandchildren will be missed by them. Friends may call at Miller Funeral Home, 3200 Golansky Blvd, on Sunday September 15th from 5 to 7 PM. She will be interred at the National Cemetery of Puerto Rico next to her late husband.

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Carmen M. Velez Nieves

September 3, 2019