ADELA LENSE's Obituary
Services will be held Sunday in Miami for Adela Lense, a long-time
supporter and early parishioner of La Ermita de la Caridad del Cobre
in Coconut Grove.
Lense died Tuesday at her Kendall home surrounded by family members
following a long battle with cancer. She was 84.
A native of Mariel, Lense fled Fidel Castro Cuba's in 1964 via
Mexico with her two children and a nephew to reunite in Chicago with
her husband, Pablo, a cadet from one of the last pre-revolution
graduating classes of Cuba's Naval Academy, who had fled months
earlier.
Lense and her family eventually settled in Tampa and Lakeland
where her husband was an engineer and she worked in retail at Maas
Brothers.
The Lenses eventually moved to Miami to join their two children
Pablo, a Miami-Dade attorney, and Ana Lense Larrauri, a Miami Herald
graphic artist.
In Miami, Lense became a devout and active member of La Ermita and
a close friend of its founder, the late Auxiliary Bishop Agustin
Roman.
"My mother loved her family. her friends and her faith. and La
Ermita and Father Roman were her spiritual center," said her daughter,
Ana.
Besides her husband of 57 years and her two children, Lense is
survived by four grandchildren, cousins and a legion of friends from
across the world.
Funeral services for Lense will be Sunday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
at Van Orsdale Funeral Home, 11220 N. Kendall Dr.
There will be a Mass in her honor at 11 a.m. Monday at St.
Catherine of Sienna Catholic Church at 9200 SW 107th Ave. followed by
a private burial service
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