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Portrait of Margarita Rivera Floriano

Mrs. Margarita Rivera

Margarita Rivera Floriano

Mrs. Margarita

July 22, 1946 – September 17, 2021

Lived 75 years

Sunset Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary · Apple Valley, CA

Life story

Margarita Rivera Floriano, born 07/22/1946 in the city of Durango Durango Mexico . My parents are Josefa and Martin Rivera. I had 8 children in Mexico until I decided to move to California in October 1, 1986 months and had my last born in 1987 in East L.A. I was 42 years old, I was a cook looking for a better future for my kids as I was a single mother. I stayed strong always even though I was a single mom. I lived in Pasadena, San Fernando, Van Nuys, and lastly Hesperia. Watching my kids and grandchildren grow in every single place. In 2017 I found out I had cancer, I lived with it for 3 years until god called me home. The last 6 weeks of my life I spent it with my youngest son Michael.

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1946

Born July 22

1949

Margarita was 3 when Gene Autry recorded "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"

1959

Margarita was 13 when Barbie made her debut

1963

Margarita was 17 when Texan Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president

1971

Margarita was 25 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida

1981

Margarita was 35 when MTV began broadcasting

1998

Margarita was 52 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America

2004

Margarita was 58 when Facebook was launched

2010

Margarita was 64 when Apple's iPad went on sale

2020

Margarita was 74 when SpaceX launched astronauts into orbit for the first time

2021

Passed away September 17, age 75

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