Obituary
Funeral services for Twyla Montano, 54, of Portales, will be held at 10:00 A.M., Friday, December 2, 2022, in the Wheeler Mortuary Chapel with Pastor Brad Morgan officiating. Burial will follow in the Portales Cemetery with R.J. Berry, Staniel Bagby, Aidan Berry, Vincent Sanchez, Jesse Sanchez and Joe Sanchez serving as pallbearers. Noah Parks, Braxton Berry and Adam Cater will be honorary pallbearers.
Twyla Ann (Parks) Montano was born June 17, 1968 in Redlands, California to Patricia Ann (Brady) and Charles Paul Parks and passed away on November 26, 2022, in Lubbock, Texas.
Twyla grew up in Artesia and graduated from Artesia High School. She received her Nursing Degree from Clovis Community College. She had dreamed of becoming a nurse since she was nine years old. She worked for Heartland Continuing Care Center in Portales and then worked at Roosevelt General Hospital for eighteen years. She later worked for Presbyterian Hospital in Clovis. Nursing and caring for others was her passion. She delivered her own grandbaby about two weeks ago.
Twyla loved to shop for herself and for her family. She also loved to ride motorcycles out in the country. She had a very strong faith in God. She loved her family and especially her grandkids very much.
She is survived by her husband Edward Montano; her sons, R.J. Berry and wife Tayler, Damon Montano and Troy Montano; her daughters, Charity Bagby and husband Staniel, Amanda Cater and husband Rusty, Rhonda Berry, Alyssa Johnson and husband Brennen, Sabrina Schaab and husband Dan, Bonnie Montano, Nicole Noce and Rebecca Montano; 26 grandchildren; two great grandchildren; her parents, Charles and Patricia Parks, and a sister, Wilma Parks Perez.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Charles Parks, II.
Services
Friday
December 2, 2022
10:00 AM
Wheeler Mortuary Chapel, Portales