Maria S. Gomez

Maria S. Gomez was born in Michuacan, Mexico on 5/15/1925. Daughter to Manuel Serafin and Francisca Prado. Sister to Jose, Sofia, and Maria del Jesus Serafin. When Maria was very young she meet and married her one and only love, Jose J. Gomez in 1943. They had 3 children and decided to pack the little belongings that they had and moved to Tijuana BC Mexico. There Jose, with a lot of hardwork bought land and build a place that they both turned into a home for the family. Together, in Tijuana, they raised 12 children, until the sudden death of Jose J. Gomez in 1975 at the young age of 63.

Maria was left to raise the younger ones, but never alone. By this time the older kids were old enough to help. Maria worked hard all her life to make sure all of her children always had everything they needed to move forward. She cleaned houses, laundry, made tortillas, and was a baby sitter.

Around 1973, she moved to California and with the children she still had at home, made a new home in Hermosa Beach, CA. There she signed up everyone for school with the hopes that everyone will have a better opportunity to get a better education and do something with their lifes.

She put her homemaker skills to work immedietly and started babysitting all the grandkids, taking them to school, picking them up and making sure everyone always had something to eat. Baby sitting wasn’t easy, she had many grandkids and all about the same age. She treated everysingle one of them as they were her own. With nothing but kindness and love in her heart she helped raise most of them. I don’t think there is one grandchild today that was not touched by this angel in some kind of loving way.

Around 1978 she moved, with the three children she had left at home, to Gardena, CA. Where she remained until the remaining children had relationsships of their own and moved out.

She moved back to the house her husband build for her in Tijuana in 1996. Maria always kept busy, it didn’t matter where she lived. She was very involved in the Catholic Church. She volunteered for many different things, she loved her garden, and was an excellent flour tortilla maker that none of her daughters up to this date has been able to duplicate. Maria moved back to California when it was time for her kids to do for her. She lived between two homes, daughter Socorro Castellon and Olivia Martinez. Maria traveled to every graduation, weddings, and birthdays that she was able to attend. When a new grandchild arrived, she was there to help with the house work or give the new mom all the ‘must know’ facts about new borns needs.

Maria S. Gomez left this earth on August 31, 2013, and joined her husband of 32 years Jose Gomez, her two sons Javier Gomez, Jorge Gomez, and a great grandchild Ricky Guzman in the Kindom of God.

Maria leaves to celebrate and cherish her memories her children, Joselillo Gomez, Martha Ortiz, Socorro Castellon, Olivia Martinez, Ricardo Gomez, Roberto Gomez, Victor Gomez, Miguel Gomez, Norma Gomez, and Maria Rodriguez. She also leaves over 40 grandchildren and a host of great-grandchildren.

Maria S. Gomez…A sister, aunt, mother, grandmother, great grandmother. The strongest person I know. She was loved by all family and friends and will trully be missed. It is with a heavy heart that we say farewell, until we meet again.