Paula DeLeon Moroles

Born November 9, 1927 in Bishop, Texas. Died October 16, 2020 in Puyallup, Washington. Paula was the last of 11 siblings born to Victor DeLeon and Paula (Mayita) Garza DeLeon. As a baby she was given the nickname ‘Blanca’ by her father and all her life she was known as ‘Blanca’.

As a small child she was taken to live on a ranch near the village Garza-Gonzales, state of Nuevo Leon, in Northern Mexico. Blanca attended elementary school there. As an early teen she was brought to Texas by her family after her older siblings had moved to Texas and her father Grandpa Victor passed away. She never felt comfortable attending school in Texas because they wanted her to start in the first grade and she was already a teenager.

She then became a part of the migrant farmworker stream travelling with her family to work in farm fields and orchards in various states like Iowa, Minnesota, California and back to Texas. The family resided in Alamo, Texas where Blanca met the Ramirez family that was also a part of the migrant farmworker stream travelling to jobs in the northern United States. Victoria Ramirez, whose maiden name was Moroles, told Blanca about her brother Adrian whom at that time was in the Army.

Victoria showed Blanca pictures of her brother and she kind of fell in love with the Ramirez family first and then with her future husband.

Adrian and Blanca were married in Alamo, Texas on April 16, 1950. They had five children Adrian Jr., Johnny, Diana, Daniel, and David. Adrian and Blanca worked jobs in Alamo the most important being pastoring a Pentecostal church congregation in Donna, Texas. Due to connections with her siblings that had moved earlier to state of Washington to work in farm related industries the family moved to Othello, Washington in 1964.

By that time Adrian had been ordained a Reverend of the Pentecostal Holiness Church. He was called to be the pastor of Pentecostal Church congregation in Dallas, Texas and the family moved there in 1966. Adrian and Blanca pastored that congregation until 1970 at which time they moved the family back to Othello. They both worked in potato processing plants there until their retirement but in meantime also began the Othello Pentecostal Holiness Church that is still there today. After their retirement Adrian and Blanca sold their Othello house and moved to Renton, Washington where they built a large home on a five acre plot. For years they developed the five acre plot with the help of their 5 grown children. They made the plot into a beautiful lawn grass, pine tree and fruit tree filled paradise. The plot was then sold to move to Bonney Lake. They stayed at their house in Bonney Lake until Papa Adrian went to his heavenly home in April 2007 and Mama Blanca just left us. They also leave behind 9 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.

Mama Blanca was always the caring and prayerful mother to her 5 children, always the great example of having faith in God, loving Jesus, showing kindness and bringing others to the Lord. Her body here is an empty shell because her eternal spirit is in heaven where she has now been reunited with her lifelong companion Adrian. Our Lord Jesus has welcomed her with open arms saying “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness” – Matthew 25:21 We praise God for the great hope we have in Jesus that we will all be together again on the great day of the Lord as described in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God and the dead in Christ will rise first”. We Praise God forever!