Lia Angelica Amador
January 20th, 1966 - December 28th 2015

Lia was from a family of 10 kids.

She was the fourth child from my father, Enrique Amador, and mother, Darlie Laverne Ray.

Lia’s middle name means “angel” in Spanish, and she was like an angel to me and to so many others.

In third grade Lia beat the whole school from kindergarten thru 8th grade in the whole school races. Lia beat the whole school. She was nine years old.

She was most like my mom – she was a great swimmer and diver, and trained horses with not a trace of fear. Just like our mom.

She also homeschooled two out of three of her kids, and when Michael, her only daughter, enrolled in public school when she was five, she was placed in the third grade.

My sister was gifted with a voice. She sang opera and was lead singer in her heavy metal band “Kings and Priests” with her husband, Don Rogers. who played lead guitar in the band while she sang all the vocals.

She studied music and opera and sang many classical songs.

She opened at Ferndale Fair for world famous artist Jeff Fenholt, one of the three lead singers for “Black Sabbath” and who played “Jesus” in the movie “Jesus Christ Superstar.” She became good friends with him and a few others and was offered to be on TBN, the Christian channel, and Jeff Fenholt wanted her to come to Hollywood but she wouldn’t go because it wasn’t her husband’s wishes, so she stayed here.

When she was five she sang on the radio station KWAV – a Carmel radio station – on the air. She sang “Love Me Like a Rock” by Paul Simon.

She was a great athlete. She was the captain of the girl’s basketball team at College of the Redwoods.

She also played baseball with 12-year-old Little League players that were friends when she was 8 and they used to yell “Lia, Lia, Lia” and would fight to get her on their team. She’d knock the ball out of the field onto the busy Sausalito freeway every time.

She was my best friend and my number one fan. Said I was her favorite person in the world. She always thought my songs and voice were better then hers I thought hers were, by far.

When she was five I showed her how to play guitar, only I’m right-handed. She was left-handed, but she only played like a right-handed player, which is very difficult to do.

She left behind but never forgot her three children:

Bobby Brown, 34, and wife Jen. She was very, very proud of Bobby. He gave her four grand children and she was always showing pictures of his four beautiful children to everyone. From oldest to youngest: Ashton Brown, Axton Brown, Aurora Brown and the youngest, Robert Brown, all from Redding. They looked just like him when he was a baby.

Lia’s second child and only girl, Michael Victoria Rogers, gave her two more grandchildren, Jordan Justis Johnson, 4, and Sophia Savanna Johnson, 2, from Larry Shawn Johnson, also from Eureka. I have to say Lia loved “Shawn” like her own son, and she held her grandbabies deep in her heart, and cherished them every minute from the time they were born. I remember when Jordan was born he cried when the nurses were holding him and Lia said “Let me have that baby,” and as soon as she held him in her arms he stopped crying. She gently snuggled him to her breast, rocking him and singing softly to him. As soon as she’d give him to anyone else he’d scream and she take him, and again sing, and he’d quiet down. He loved his Grandma Lia and she will be greatly missed.

She also will be deeply missed by her youngest boy, David Ezekiel Rogers from Eureka. She was very proud of him, too. He is currently in the Marines and has been very deeply saddened by the loss of his mother.

Lia will also be missed by her oldest brother, Mark Allen Eversoll of Georgia, who is very very hurt and saddened from her death, and her cousins Adam Eversoll and Rachel Murphy (Eversoll), and her other brothers, Michael Enrique Amador and Christofer Carlos Amador and youngest brother Stephen Brett Amador or “Paco,” and by me, her sister, Pilar Amador, along with her half brother, Marc Amador of Mountain View, all her aunt and uncles on her dad’s side, Aunty Nelly, uncles Esmael Amador, Augusto Amador, Ezekiel Amador, Guillermo Amador of Mountain View and Palo Alto, and Alberto Amador from Sacramento, her cousins Ricardo Amador, Jenny Amador, Carlos Amador, Tito Amador and Michelle Amador, Esmael Amador, Roberto Amador, Fernando Amador, Rosita Amador, Karrie Amador and all the rest of her Amador cousins I didn’t name her Aunty Mary and cousins John Ray, Leslie Ray and Allison Ray of San Diego, on our mom’s side.

And not to forget all of you who truly loved her, who were there for her. You are not ever forgotten.

May she rest in peace in Heaven with Jesus awaiting for our arrival. I love you, little sister, forever, and I know even though you are gone from my world down here, that it’s only for a minute, and that indeed, I will join you Lia, I will see you on the other side.

Please join us to celebrate her life and the good times on Feb. 27 at 2:30 p.m. at the Redwood Christian Center, 6000 Humboldt Hill Rd. A pot luck will follow the service. Please come and celebrate with all of us. Thank you.

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