Alexander M Cruz

Alex Cruz, Beloved, Dies at 21.

Warmed in the comfort of your loving embrace, the same which cradled me before I could bear my own weight, as the sun’s luminance greets us in what loving cordiality you wore with each new, or familiar, or beloved and especially my own countenance you met, each pair of eyes the eyes of your father, each occasion to flash, or sustain, your smile…. 

Alexander Michael Cruz, affectionately known as Bubba, Big Al, Sloppy, My Alex, or, simply, Alex, and in his legacy will be revered as a loving son, grandson, cousin, friend and Brother, passed away Wednesday, January 31, 2024 in a single car, single victim, vehicular accident when he careened into the overgrowth flanking Flowers Mill Rd in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania.

A graduate of Bucks County Technical High School in 2020, intending a career in small engine mechanics, he found himself instead continuing the work he did prior to graduation; being at first a kitchen aid, tending tenderly at the table those for whom he would eventually prepare for as chef of the same kitchen this past summer. He cared for those he serviced, here, at Allegria, and it was here that for she earned in the credulity of time describes as “the love of her life.”

 He was 21 years old. 2 and 1, the later the sum of the person we made together, the halving of which I’ve been reduced to in his passing.
He will be remembered by many a moniker, none more apt than the other and none entirely appropriate: loving son to his mother who lost her husband his father at 9; nephew to aunts and uncles whose children he regarded as though they were his younger siblings, and reprising the role of the rascally younger brother to those his senior ; grandson brimming with magnanimity expressed by a tolerance some would, and have, described as “special,” at the very least beyond expectations of reasoned boundaries drawn, compensated without protest in Reese’s by the jar, Spanish rice by the plateful, beer in units of six…; friend of unmatched commitment, participant in the gaming which occupied his spare time, in debates on Star Wars and myth, decision making in RPC’s and map construction, whether or not the already devastated thickness of his, or his brothers, friends coiffure is more severe than he’s willing to admit, for he was never loath to breath the unsaid; lover who, before the end, found occasion to drown her in the deluge of his compassion spritzing whoever happened to meet and see into the depths of his gaze dripping in sweat caramels.

But what can we say for one so young? How quickly we reach the frontiers of one’s impression on the world before succumbing to the dumb hope of our own lamented projections…. So, for now, we remember him as he was, and consolidate the storehouse of memories of this man, my Brother too soon ripped from time’s tenuous grasp and gone, into the likeness we carry with us until we meet again.

He is preceded in death by his father Ricardo Cruz Jr and his grandfather Steve Wise. Alex will be greatly missed by his mother Megan Cruz(Aaron Bittenbender), his brother Matthew Cruz, and his grandparents Ricardo Sr and Maria Cruz, and Frances Wise. He will also be greatly missed by Auggie, Uncle Michael, Tio Orlando, his girlfriend Maria Valentin and many other Aunts, Uncles, cousins and close friends.

Family and Friends are invited Wednesday morning February 7, 2024 from 9:30-11:30am at Queen of the Universe Church 2443 Trenton Rd Levittown Pa 19056. Funeral mass will begin at 11:30am. Interment will follow in Resurrection Cemetery.

In Lieu of flowers donation can be made in memory of his name to Philly Bully Team.

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Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Galzerano Funeral Home.