Antonio Raul Ximenez

Antonio Raul Ximenez died in Springfield on August 16, 2026. He was 75. Born on August 25, 1950, into a Mexican-American household that treated work as a language. He learned early that a day is something you finish, not something you wait for. He moved freight across a line that was also a neighborhood. A bilingual clipboard held two calendars; he made deadlines without making enemies. Colleagues still mention a bilingual clipboard with both calendars. He married Isabel in 1975. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised two daughters through public schools and ordinary weather. After Isabel died in 2019, he kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember a wave from the driveway that meant you were seen. He liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. He died in Springfield, among streets he never needed to explain. The chair by the window still holds the shape of a habit.