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Her Life

Biography

April 29, 2015

Esther Bovero was born Esther Mayers on January 22, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois to Russian Jewish immigrants Morris and Ana.  They moved to the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles around 1940.  At 19 years old Esther went to Monterey, California to join the YWCA at Asilomar and worked at Fort Ord where she met and married her first husband Richard Sanchez.  They lived in Los Angeles and would eventually have six children:Ray, Richard, Renee, Roberta, Rosalee, and Ronald. They moved to the San Fernando Valley(Panorama City)in 1950. Although Esther was proud of her Jewish heritage, she decided to join the Panorama Baptist Church and on Easter Sunday 1957 she and her husband and the three oldest children were baptised.  She devoted herself to the church singing in the choir and working there part time. The marriage would not last and they divorced in 1960.
  
After her marriage ended she enrolled in Valley College where she earned her Associates Degree in 1964. She worked in the beauty insustry for some time, first as a manicurist, then later going to L.A.Trade Tech to learn Electrology which she worked at briefly.
Then she applied for a job at the Santa Monica Police Dept where she worked for 12 years as a records supervisor before retiring.

It was while she was still working that she attended a singles' dance where she met the love of her life, Arthur Bovero.  They married in 1968 after one year of courtship.  They were blessed to have a very happy marriage for 46 years, living in the same home in Westchester, California.  During that time they traveled extensively to many parts of the world, going on several cruises and road trips.  They traveled to Europe, South America, Mexico, Canada, Alaska, the Carribean, and Hawaii.  Besides vacationing, they often traveled to see relatives many times driving or flying to other states in the U.S.

Esther and Arthur volunteered together at the LAX Traveler's Aid for some time which she enjoyed very much.  They attended Catholic church on Sundays.

Eshter loved crafts and attending classes in a variety of arts such as ceramics, calligraphy, painting, and writing.  She produced many paintings and craft items, but she found her true love in witing. She took writing classes and published a series of books with her class before self-publishing her own book, "Consider the Source", which is still on sale on Amazon.com.

She had a great love of Opera and classical music and in earlier years loved to play the piano.  One of her favorites was, "Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven.      (The song playing on this memorial).
She taught the three oldest children to read music and to also play the piano.

She leaves behind her beloved Arthur, three step-children(Michael, Michele, and Lisa), her own four children(Ray, Renee, Rosalee, and Ronald), grandchildren(Richard, Amber, Krisha, Natalia, Raquel, also Duke, Charles, Tamu, Jordan, Caitlin,  and a dozen others, plus step-grandchildren, Nicole, Stephanie, Jennifer, Tracey, Josh, Trevor, and 15 great grandchildren and step-great grandchildren. It's difficult to keep track of all the names now.  Will be updated later on.

 When asked what she attributed her long life to she said, "to my mother telling me to never give up".