Born April 30th, 1936 – Passed December 28th, 2018
Funeral Services for Kathleen (Kaye) Negron, will be held on Tuesday, January 15th, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. Viewing and visitation will be held on Monday, January 14th, 2018, from 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at Pierce Brothers Crestlawn Mortuary, 11500 Arlington Avenue, Riverside, California, 92505.
Kaye passed away on December 28, 2018 peacefully with her loving family always by her side along with the compassionate ICU staff at Kaiser, Riverside.
Kaye was born in Long Island, New York to Charles and Nancy Dantuono and was the second born of their five children. Kaye is preceded in death by her parents, her two sisters, her son, her grandson, and two of her granddaughters.
Kaye grew up on a farm in Long Island, New York. After High School, she worked as a telephone operator. She eventually met and married Erasto (Todd) Negron from Utuado, Puerto Rico, her husband of nearly 60 years. She is survived by Todd and their children; daughter’s June & Diane, and sons Richard & Leonard Kaye is also the proud Grandmother (Nana) to 11 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, and one great great-grandchild.
Todd and Kaye started their lives in Patchogue, where she settled in to raise their growing family of five. A few years into the union they relocated their family to a family estate in Glen Avon, Riverside, California. The estate was shared with Kays Mom and Dad, along with her sister Josephine and family, her brother Charles and family, and her sister Nancy.
Kaye and Todd eventually moved their family to Anaheim, California where each of their children graduated from Esperanza High School. While being a stay at home mom, Kaye spent many years attending her three son’s baseball games as team mom, score keeper, and snack shack manager.
As her kids grew, Kaye began a career as a school bus driver for the Orange County School District. One of her proudest moments of service was driving her bus filled with Olympians during the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California.
Over the years and after the passing of her mother, Kaye inherited the responsibility of keeping the entire family unit together by continuing many family tradition and hosting family holidays.
Kaye was a larger than life, strong, funny, loving, nurturing, vocal person, she was the “keep it real” kind of woman, she always spoke her thoughts straight up and to the point. With Kaye, it didn’t matter the circumstances or situation, to Kaye there was no problem or issue that a good meal couldn’t cure! And to her you were always hungry, even if you thought you were not - her food was that good!
She loved her entire family and her friends from the depths of her heart. She is, and will always be, greatly missed by all who truly knew her.
