Luisa Neuman de Del Rio

Luisa Serafina Neuman was born to Johan Frederick Wilhem Neuman and Maria del Carmen Jimenez de Neuman on April 19, 1927 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. When she was still an infant, her parents boarded a boat making their way back to Mexico City. On that boat she learned to walk. She had 7 siblings: Rene, Hilda, Sally, Fe, Johnny, Lea, Guadalupe. As a young girl she enjoyed both Mexican and American cinema as well as celebrity news which was a lifelong hobby.

She was a striking beauty and always dressed like a lady. Luisa married Fernando Del Rio Perez September 16, 1946 and they had 6 children together: Luisa, Fernando, Patricia, Yvonne, Humberto and Florecita. While she was pregnant with Luisa, her mother in law Maria Perez de Del Rio first shared the Bible truths she had learned from Jehovah's Witnesses. Shortly after that, Shirley Hendrickson and Doris Boop, Gilead School missionaries, studied the Bible with Luisa and her children. She dedicated her life to Jehovah and symbolized her dedication by water baptism along with her daughter Luisa June 9, 1956 in Mexico City.

During her faithful course serving Jehovah she was happy to announce God’s Kingdom as a permanent solution for this World’s problems.

In September 1998 she began full time or Regular Pioneering, dedicating 70 hours a month in the ministry . Luisa attended her first Pioneer Service School in Burlingame, California with one of her granddaughters in August 1999.

She attended 4 additional Pioneer Service Schools, the last one held March 2021 on ZOOM. She remained a Regular Pioneer for 24 years. She enjoyed being a Bible student and a Bible Teacher. Her favorite aspect of her ministry was to encourage people she met, and family members she cherished, to learn about God’s promises that she had discovered in the Bible .

She decorated the walls of her home with pictures of her family, including her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren whom she dearly loved. She kept all the tokens of their affection and decorated every inch of space she had with their love. Luisa enjoyed painting, playing canasta, making beaded jewelry and crafts as well as fashion and was very generous, inviting friends and family to lunch and buying gifts whenever she could.

She is survived by 5 of her children and their spouses: Luisa & Ralph, Fernando, Patricia & Rory, Yvonne and Humberto & Diana as well as 14 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren and many nephews and nieces

We look forward to seeing her young, healthy and beautiful once again. We long to spend quality time with her and her dead loved ones she was anxious to see again right here on earth.

One of her favorite scriptures is part of a prayer of Jesus, "This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ."-John 17:3