Ms. Dena Luedke, age 30 of 40 Sanatra Drive in Cameron, NC entered into eternal rest on Thursday, November 8, 2018.
Services will be 1:00 pm Thursday, November 29, 2018 at Bellmead Funeral Home with Rev. Edward Miles officiating. Burial will be at Rosemound Cemetery. Visitation will be 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on Thursday before the service at the funeral home. Following the services the family will receive friends at the Freedom of God Ministries Church.
Dena was born to Rhonda Luedke and Raymond Perez on October 29, 1988 at Shannon Hospital in San Angelo, Texas.
She was educated through Cedar Ridge Elementary School in Waco, Texas and Harnett County Schools in North Carolina.
Dena attended Johnsonville AME Zion Church in Cameron, North Carolina.
Her hobbies included designing and painting nails as well as cooking all sorts of dishes to include a "shrimp dip" that she was famous for.
Dena was employed as a supervisor with Lil Ceasar's Pizza in Vass, North Carolina.
She was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Richard Quintanilla; her great-grandmother, Ruth Lawrence; and niece, Azianna Perez.
Dena leaves to cherish her memory: four children, Briashia Lyles, Allenniya Cole, Sir-Zailden Cole, all of the home and Elisreal Perez of Waco, TX; parents, Rhonda Luedke, Raymond Perez and step-father, Roy Luedke of Waco, TX; maternal grandparents, Dana Rhodes of Waco, TX and Roger Bond of Cameron, NC; paternal grandmother, Francis Quintanilla of Waco, TX; five siblings, Raymond Perez, Jr.,"Moe" of Waco, TX , Francesca Perez, "Minnie" of Waco, TX, Alisha Kelly of Waco, TX, Zabeth Rios of Atlanta, GA and Rianna Rios of Waco, TX; and many more; a life long friend, Malkia Sheppard of Sanford, NC; a special friend, Leticia Millan of Sanford, NC and a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.