ricky

on behalf of ricky martinez's dad roman martinez, sister rosalinda perea, wife nelda martinez, his only
daughter rycca martinez, and my self brother bobby martinez. we would like to thank everyone for there
thoughts prayers, and condolences. its another sad time in our lives. many of you have been on this
long journey with the hometown boys. when we lost my oldest brother roman jr. in 97, three months later
in 98 joe past away, in 2000 my sisters husband james past away, in 02 jesse past, in 04 jesse's son
angelo past, in 05 our mother maria dolores past, which brings us to today, ricky past in 07. life is not
always fair, but we have to play the hand that we are dealt, we have to move forward thats what all my
brothers and mom would have wanted. one of the conversations i had with ricky not to long ago, he
made me promise that if something happened to him that we would not let the music of the hometown
boys die, he said that the tejano and conjunto people, fans will be there for htb like they were there when
joe and jesse past. so we will push ahead and see where this road with out ricky will take us. ricky
touched alot of lives, and one day when its my turn to go, i would be honored if people said the same
about me, but that is in the future. again thank you to everyone for there prayers, thoughts, condolences
and flowers, emails, phone calles and people we talked to in person and shared there stories of ricky
with us. ricky always said, and i agree with him, if it wasnt for the people, and fans we would not be the
hometown boys you are the ones that made us what and who we are. dont give up on the hometown
boys. we will be around.
sincerly
roman
rosie
nelda
rycca
bobby
and also thank you to the rest of the homies for being there and for sticking with us. stevan martinez
accordion, marky lee vocals, juan hernandez drums.