Calvin L. Quintana

    Calvin Leroy Quintana, 45, was peacefully called home to our Heavenly Father on the early morning of January 11, 2024. He was surrounded by his parents, sister, and oldest niece.               

     He was born in Las Vegas, New Mexico on July 26, 1978, and grew up in Pecos. God was always first in his life being born a parishioner of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church and a member of The Church of Christ.

     He attended Pecos Independent Schools, Temple Baptist, and obtained his G.E.D from Santa Fe Community College in 1996. He worked at Cities of Gold Casino as a Blackjack Dealer, Santa Fe County Detention Center as a guard, and as a security officer. Part-time jobs were in restaurants, caretaking, and feeding horses. In his early teens, he learned to play the guitar and the song, “Oh Donna,” was one of his many favorites. He also began playing pool and later became a participant of The American Pool Players Association, often travelling to Las Vegas, Nevada for pool tournaments. He was a devoted San Francisco 49ers, Chicago Bulls, and Atlanta Braves fan.  Fishing, camping, hiking, playing horseshoes, and mud bogging were also some of his hobbies. But more than anything, he loved spending time with his nieces and nephew. Despite being a timid guy, Calvin truly had a heart of gold.

       Preceding him in death were his paternal grandparents, Roman (Shorty) and Eufemia Quintana (godparents); maternal grandparents, Nevarez and Susie Armijo; brother, Gabriel Quintana; paternal great-grandmothers, Adela Lucero and Antonia Quintana; maternal great-grandmother, Romana Dalton; aunts, Edwina Quintana, Ramona (Mona) Quintana, and Marylou Chavez; cousin, Jerome Tapia; and by his former wife, Gina Montoya. 

        He is survived by his father, Leroy; mother, Olivia (Nick); sister, Kerina (Raymundo); nieces, Ariella and Ivana; nephew, Raymundo Jr.; paternal uncles and aunts, Alfonso and Bernadette, Adrian, Theresa, Jose Isidro, Lorraine, and Melecio;  maternal uncles and aunts, Pat and Molly, Michael and Victoria, Patricio and Abbie, and Jesse; paternal great-uncles and great-aunts: Eliseo and Connie, Isaias (Joe), Aurelio Don, Eutimio (Tim) and Diane, Cecilia, and Mary Paz Quintana; maternal great-aunt: Ruth Dalton; along with Chendo and Nina, Randy and Aggie, Osmundo and Tina, Gabriel and Berlinda, Charlie and Carmen, David, and many other extended relatives and friends.

          A memorial service will be held on Friday, January 19, 2024, at 1:00pm at the Church of Christ, 20 Church Rd, (Across Eagles Nest Market) in Pecos. A rosary will be recited at 10:00am on Saturday, January 20, 2024, followed by mass at 11:00am at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church. Interment will follow at St. Anthony’s Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be Raymundo, Raymundo, Jr., Pat, Michael, Jacobo, Joe, Melvin, and Tim.