Gabriel Pizana

April 23, 1974 - September 28, 2021

Services for Gabriel Pizana, age 47 of Rockdale will be 2:00 p.m. Sunday, October 3, 2021 at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale with Pastor Lance Walch of Forest Grove Christian Church officiating. Burial in the Forest Grove Cemetery. Visitation is 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Saturday, October 2, 2021 at the funeral home. Gabriel, son of Eberardo and Catalina (Maldonado) Pizana, was born in Austin on April 23, 1974. He has lived the past 35 years in Rockdale and was a 1994 graduate of Rockdale High School. On August 6, 2016, he and Kim Rodgers were married in Rockdale. He worked as a security guard at Whinstone in Rockdale. Gabriel was a major Dallas Cowboy, Texas Longhorn and Rockdale Tiger football fan. He was a former Little League coach and a member of Forest Grove Christian Church. Gabriel’s family was his priority. He passed away Tuesday afternoon, September 28, 2021 in the Baylor Scott & White Hospital in Lakeway. He is preceded in death by his father, Eberardo Pizana. Surviving is his wife, Kim Pizana of Rockdale; sons, Christopher Pizana of Milano, Avery Pizana of Milano and Ellis Suits of Rockdale; his mother, Catalina Pizana; brothers, Hector Ortiz of Corsicana and Jose Maldonado of Rockdale; sisters, Susan Mendoza of Rockdale and Shelly Ortiz of Rockdale; mother-in-law, Janet Stab of Rockdale. Pallbearers are Roland Mora, John Stewart, Scott Lewis, Michael Stewart, Gerald Mora, Jose Maldonado, Billy Maldonado, Chris Pizana, Avery Pizana and Ellis Suits.