Albino Raymond Arreola

Albino was born in Delano, California, and spent part of his childhood in Shafter. When he was nine years old, the family moved to a farm a few miles from Earlimart. He grew up on this farm and watched his older brothers raise animals for their Future Farmers of America projects. He was also lucky to get a toy tractor which he drove all around the family farm creating tire tracks everywhere.

After graduating from Delano High School, he went to Fresno State University to major in accounting. After getting his degree in accounting, he spent 20 years working in this business field.

He met his future wife, Linda Doria, in high school. They married after he graduated from Fresno State University. They had two children, Salina and Jimmy. They raised their children outside the city limits where it was quieter and slower paced. Albino loved living outside the city limits because it reminded him of the farm and his childhood.

After 20 years of accounting, he decided to become a school teacher. After taking his teacher training, he started teaching a fourth grade class. The following two years he stayed with the same class becoming their fifth and sixth grade teacher. Those students became his extended family. They talked him into following them to junior high school.

At the junior high school he taught science. He was able to have many of those same students who he had taught in elementary school. For many years these students came back to talk to him and to seek his advice about their future education and careers. Albino would often come home and talk about his former students coming by to visit with him and to let him know how they were doing. He would always say that being a teacher was the best choice he made.

After many years of teaching, Albino retired. Then he worked on his garden of fruit and nut trees. He tried to get fruit trees that produce fruit early and mid-season. Of course, he had a few that produced fruit at the end of the season. As the years went by, he called his garden of trees "The Garden of Eden."

After enjoying many years of gardening, Albino left the rest of the gardening to his family on October 30, 2024.