Elsie Noemi Alvarenga, who came from El Salvador as a child and grew up in Chelsea, died on Monday, November 9, 2026, one day before her 52nd birthday. She was 51.
She was born on November 10, 1974, to Maria Dilma Rosa and the late Rafael Antonio Alvarenga. Chelsea is where she grew into adulthood, and her family says the friends and relatives around her there made her part of the city’s life.
Her family describes a humble, brave woman with a large heart who lived through hard fights and kept going. They say she could make people laugh on her worst days and that she tended to keep her own pain to herself so that others would not have to carry it.
She leaves three children, Christina Elizabeth Alvarenga, Elsie Beatriz Alvarenga-Rosa and Gabriel Barragan Jr.; her mother; her sister, Maribel Alvarenga; her brothers, Marvin Alvarenga, Edwin Alexander Rosa and Jose Omar Rosa; as well as grandchildren, great-grandchildren, cousins and friends.
A service will be held on Tuesday, November 17, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Paul Buonfiglio and Sons-Bruno Funeral Home, 128 Revere Street, Revere.
Compiled from information published by Paul Buonfiglio & Sons-Bruno Funeral Home, 128 Revere Street, Revere. Photograph courtesy of the family via Buonfiglio Funeral Home. This is our own summary, not the family’s obituary; read the full obituary and leave a condolence at the funeral home’s website. Corrections: we will fix any error promptly.