Norma Iris Pagan-Flores

With the heaviest of hearts, we are disheartened to announce the passing of Norma Iris Pagan Flores after her battle with cancer. She crossed over to the other side to meet her departed loved ones on December 4, 2024, surrounded by her three children, Norma E. Markovics, Carl Garcia, and Janipp M. Mitchell. She was still a very young 85. Norma was brought into this mortal plane in Aibonito, Puerto Rico on February 25, 1939, where a decades and a half later would then take her to New York where she made a home for her children and family.

During her stay in New York, she did some off Broadway acting in a few Shakespeare plays, in which she shined the brightest. While entertaining the masses, she took to working for the United States Postal Service, which she would retire from many decades later. She would work in many different locations, for the USPS, and always was loved by all who knew her.

She was active in the church, and loved to sing gospel in her native tongue, Spanish. When she wasn’t attending church, she was often traveling abroad, to new countries making friends along the way, knitting and crocheting, finding new hobbies to try out. She loved her coloring books and crossword puzzles, and avidly collected new issues.

She is preceded in her death by her parents, Felix Pagan and Asuncion Flores, as well as her brothers, Felix Pagan and Hector Pagan.

She is survived by her brothers, William and Louis Pagan, her children Norma E. Markovics, Carl Garcia, Janipp M. Mitchell, her grandchildren Lynda Markovics, Carlos Fabian Garcia, Alisia ChristinaGarcia and finally her great grandchildren Niccademia Medina, Aurelian Medina and Ophelia Medina.

The family would love to extend their immense gratitude to the Mayo Clinic & Hospice of The Valley for the care and compassion they showed our loved one in their final days.