Maldonado joined the Marines in the fall of 2007, the same year he graduated, according to published news reports. “I felt safe with a young man like Jose defending our country,” Casarez said.

Feb. 1—Jose Lelio Maldonado Jose Lelio Maldonado, Beloved husband of Eloisa Maldonado, was called home to our Lord peacefully on January 26, 2025. Jose (Joel) was born in August, 1929 to the ...