Benny "Spider" Balderaz

Benny Balderaz, aka Spider, 74, passed into the arms of Jesus July 14, 2024.

A remembrance service will be at 6:00 P.M., Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in the Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel. Funeral service will be at 10:30 A.M., Thursday, July 18, 2024, at Power Church, 1344 SE 10th Ave. Interment will follow in Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors.

He was born on November 17, 1949, in Sterling City, Texas, to Jesus and Elida Balderaz. He married Teresa Leal on August 3, 1969 and they were blessed with two daughters. He worked most of his life as a sheep shearer, and truck driver hauling potatoes, silo, sugar beets, and fertilizer, alongside his father and brothers. 

Spider was loved by all the ladies. He always had a smile on his face and always had a joke to tell. He had a love/hate relationship with the Dallas Cowboys. Spider loved to watch Westerns and cruise the streets of San Angelo in his Ford F-150.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Jesus and Elida Balderaz.

Spider is survived by his daughters, Amanda Balderaz of Sterling City, and Crissy Rodriquez, and husband Sid of Amarillo, Texas; siblings, Olivia Rodriguez, Guy Balderaz, Roy Balderaz, and Elvira Alvarado; grandchildren; Amber Ramos, John Arispe and wife Sierra, and Aaron Ramos; great-grandchildren, McKenna Arispe, Zayleigh Hase, Zariah Hase, and Zaiden" Bubba" Hase; and bonus great grandchildren Maliah Hase, Myleigh York, and Katie Beck.