Antoinette Muro

Antoinette ``Toni” Muro (née Oliveros) born March 4, 1940, passed away on November 6, 2022. Toni, as she was known by friends and family, graduated from Fontana High School in 1957. She was only a junior at the time but had gotten ahead in her credits due to a bad car accident which forced her to spend a year at home in bed. One of the books that she read that year had pictures of lighthouses on faraway islands off the coast of New England and this sparked an interest that would never fade.

After High School Toni worked as a telephone operator for the Pacific Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company in downtown Los Angeles. It was around this time that Toni met a young man named Daniel Muro at party. She stood him up on their first date. But Dan was not dissuaded and eventually the two were married on February 27, 1965. Five years later Toni would give birth to a son, Daniel Christian Muro.

Shortly after their marriage Toni learned that her husband had kidney disease when he suffered a heart attack and nearly died from renal failure. For the rest of his life Toni was Dan’s chief medical advocate. As his ability to work became less and less she took on the role of bread winner for her family. Working first as a real estate agent, and later as a secretary, Toni rose quickly through the ranks of the secretarial pool and soon was working for an assistant superintendent to the San Bernardino Unified School District.

But the most amazing thing of all is that Toni’s life really began at age 60 when she followed her dream and moved to live on Peaks Island, off the coast of Portland, Maine. Sadly, her husband was unable to join her as he passed away from cancer in 2001, but her fourteen years on Peaks Island was, without a doubt, a high point.

Due to progressing lung disease Toni moved to Sun Lakes, Arizona, where, with the help of her niece Virgina Jenkins, Virginia’s husband Bill, her great niece Trisha Alder, Trisha’s husband John, and all of their children she led a full life surrounded by family.

Toni is survived by her son Daniel Christian Muro, his wife Joane and their daughter Sofia, whom she absolutely adored. Toni also is survived by a sister Kathi Mills in Florida.