Sonia Amaya, 53, of Muscatine, passed away on Sunday, April 10, 2022, at Trinity Muscatine Hospital.
A visitation will be held from 1:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. on Friday, April 15, 2022, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the children, in care of Joanna and Franklin. Online condolences may be made at www.wittichfuneralhome.com.
Sonia was born on July 21, 1968, in Juarez, Mexico, the daughter of Edilberto and Josefina Alvarado Torres.
She loved to help people. Sonia worked as a certified nurse’s aide, para educator, and drove for Non-Emergency Transport in Muscatine. She enjoyed cooking, projects, puzzles, and listening to all genres of music. Sonia loved her family. She had a big heart and always put everyone else first.
Those left to honor her memory include her children, Franklin Amaya and Joanna Amaya; her mother, Josefina Torres; and siblings, Marisela Quiroz and her husband, Fabiol, of Colorado; Elena Ochoa and her husband, Javier, of Illinois, Virginia Torres of Illinois; Josephine Diaz and her husband, Manny, of Illinois; Edilberto Torres Jr. of Illinois, and Cesar Torres and his wife, Abigail, of Washington, Iowa.
Sonia is preceded in death by her father.
