A CELEBRATION OF LIFE AND HONOR
Amelia Estrada, 88, born on December 16, 1936, in Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico, passed away on April 25, 2025. She resided in Anaheim, CA at the time of her passing. She lived her life with love, peace, and laughter. She gave so much love and passed in peace, surrounded by loved ones.
Amelia lived a couple of years in Oakland, and San Francisco California, where she celebrated her Sweet Sixteen. She married the love of her life Florencio Estrada Munoz t, in Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico, and started their family in the city of Tijuana, Baja California. They moved to the United States in the seventies, where they continued to raise their family and enjoyed spending family time at home and at the happiest place on earth, Disneyland. Unfortunately, Amelia became a widow in 1985, taking on the roles of a mother and father to her children at the age of forty-eight.
Amelia enjoyed music, from Trios and Vicente, to the big bands of Glenn Miller, Ray Conniff, and the romantic melodies of Franck Poucel, Charles Aznavour. She enjoyed, cinema, Epoca de Oro del Cine Mexico, American films and foreign movies. She was an avid reader and loved writing. She wrote beautiful verses and poems about her life and loved ones. She liked playing "loteria" and was even a great table tennis player.
Amelia was a Certified Accountant. She never really practiced because what she enjoyed the most and was her biggest passion and joy was to take care of her family. She enjoyed preparing meals for her family, taking care of her children at any age, making sure that they had organic, nutritious meals, a good education, and a strong Faith. She enjoyed time together with her family and loved ones. Most of all, she wanted to raise strong, decent, good human beings and happy individuals. She educated by example. She was a woman of faith, spiritual, honest, caring, sincere, hard-working, faithful, respectful, and loving.
Her legacy is all the love she gave us.
Amelia is survived by her beloved brother Pepe and sister-in-law Coco. She was Mother to six: Blanca Esthela, Raquel Yolanda, Noemy Araceli, Alma Leticia, Mario Alberto and Jose Antonio. Grandmother to fourteen, and Great-Grandmother to eighteen.
Ponte en las manos de Dios al abrir los ojos a la luz de nuevo dia
Y a medida que te pasen las horas
Recuerda que Dios dirige tu vida porque lo tienes cerca
Muy cerca de ti
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