Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Mendoza, Carolina September 28 2004
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Carolina Mendoza
Nov. 22, 1911 Sept. 28, 2004 

Carolina Mendoza went home to be with our Lord on September 28, 2004, in 
Garden Grove, California. Carolina passed on just as she always wanted, 
peacefully, in her sleep. She was 92 years old. 

Carolina was born in Nunon, Texas on November 22, 1911. She was one of seven 
children of Jesus and Margarita Mendoza. She moved with her family to Santa 
Ana, California while her parents were looking for work to support the family 
and remained there until the age of thirteen. Her parents, who followed crop 
work from town to town, finally settled down in Delano, CA, and bought a house 
when she was eighteen.

At nineteen Carolina married Antonio Ramirez and bore her first child, a son. 
Nine years later, she divorced and married Mike Talamantez, with whom she had 
two boys and three girls. She remained married to Mr. Talamantez for ten years 
before setting out on her own to support and raise her family. Carolina loved 
dancing and watching her novellas, but most of all she loved working.

Carolina worked for Bill Nakayama and Pandol Farms. She was always very proud 
of how she had started as a laborer and worked her way up to the position of 
foreman. Carolina purchased a gas station and converted the property into 
apartments, owned rentals and other properties. In 1981, she sold all her 
properties in Delano and retired to Santa Ana. In her later years, Carolina 
was able to spend her summers in Bakersfield, and winters in Santa Ana. The 
last few years of her life were spent at the Pacific Haven Health Center of 
Garden Grove.

Carolina was preceded in death by her parents, Jesus and Margarita, and two of 
her own children, both named Mike (one at three months and another stillborn). 
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Frank and Alice Ramirez; 
daughters and sons-in-law, Adeline and Rudy Ortega, Vera and Joe Reyes, Olivia 
and Luciano Castro; fourteen grandchildren; and thirty great-grandchildren.

Services will be held on October 5, 2004 at Guadalupe Church, 1015 Clinton, 
Delano, CA, by Father Beirs. Pallbearers will be Frank Jr. and Ronald Ramirez, 
Rudy Ortega Jr., Ruben and Darrell Duran, and Gary Castro. Honorary 
pallbearers will be Darrick Duran, Greg Castro and Ryan Ortega. Mass and 
Rosary will begin at 9:00 a.m. with graveside services immediately following 
at North Kern Cemetery, 627 Austin, in Delano. A reception will be held 
immediately following services at Guadalupe Church. 


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