Family, friends and a pair of Marines gathered Thursday at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery to say goodbye to Carlos Valdez III, who died in San Antonio floodwaters earlier this month.
Valdez, 67, served in the Marine Corps, rising from private first class to lance corporal before returning to civilian life.
He married in 1981 and became the father of three children, worked for Swift Packing Co. until 2019 and then lit out on his own as an independent commercial and residential painter…