Angela Ruth Faron was a devoted mother of three, a loving partner, a cherished sister, a loyal friend and an imaginative artist whose life was defined by creativity, humor and an extraordinary ability to make people feel cared about. She died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm on June 21, 2026, while doing something she loved: watching a movie at her family’s home in Eureka with her partner of 16 years, Chris Tomas. Angie was 37 years old.

Throughout her life, Angie brought humor, color and flair to everything she touched, including hundreds of original art pieces she created for friends and family and sold in a local shop. She was adored by all who knew her, and although her own childhood was marked by instability, she and Chris set out to create the opposite experience for their own family, building a secure and loving home where their children could thrive.

“It felt like Christmas every day,” her 15-year-old twin daughters, Alessa and Aaliyah, agreed.

Angie was born on July 7, 1988, in Farmington, Maine, to Nancy and Bruce Faron, both of whom predeceased her. She grew up with two brothers (Allen and Joshua), one sister (Kendahl), all of whom she was close with. “She was a confidante, a friend and a piece of our hearts that will forever be missed,” Kendahl said. “Her siblings remember her as a beacon of warmth and generosity, always ready with a listening ear and a comforting word.” Angie also had two older half-brothers (Jeffrey and Jonathan) “from a different litter,” as Nancy liked to say, and a half-sister (Bethany) on her father’s side.

After living in several places, including Arizona, the family eventually landed in Eureka. And as a fifth grader at Jefferson Elementary School, Angie met her lifelong best friend Wendy Briggs. Together, the girls took long walks with their dogs, sometimes getting muddy and lost in Sequoia Park, and late-night sleepover parties involving a Ouija board. They also loved grabbing Taco Bell, then sitting in the car to eat and talk. When they attended school dances or Halloween parties, Angie often dressed as a vampire, and her costumes were always impressive, because she was an artist right from the start.

Angie was always drawing or painting something, and she and Wendy enjoyed shopping for art supplies at Michael’s and looking at all the tiny furniture. They watched a lot of movies, too. One time, they watched “Rush Hour,” and as the credits rolled and “Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting” blared, they started dancing in the kitchen. Angie fell and broke her ankle, but she laughed so hard that Wendy couldn’t help but laugh with her. In that moment and throughout her life, Angie was determined to find humor wherever she could, and to lift the spirits of others.

“She was always trying to help people and brighten their day,” Wendy remembers. “She saved my life a lot.”

Although Angie met Chris while attending Zane Middle School, they didn’t get together until many years later, after Chris returned from serving in the army. By chance, both he and Angie were living in Sebastopol, and for Chris, the opportunity to be together was “one of those fairytale things.”

“It was honestly by the grace of the gods that our paths had crossed again,” Chris said.

Throughout their 16 years together, he considered Angie his best friend and the love of his life. Together, Angie and Chris worked to rise above their troubled upbringings to create a life they both loved, and to become the first members of each of their respective families to own a home.

The family put down roots in Eureka, where they were raising their twin girls and their third child, Malakai (“Kai”), a sweet boy with autism who is now 6. The children were the center of Angie’s world, and she loved spending time with them, whether they were watching movies, making art, playing games, cooking, visiting parks, exploring the zoo, going to the mall or relaxing at home. Angie also signed the twins up for the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, and with their big sisters, the girls would ride bikes, swim, explore the outdoors, try new foods and roller skate.

Angie gave all her kids nicknames, and would joke with them and play spooky and hilarious pranks. Sometimes, she would hide eerie dolls, zombie fingers or a Michael Myers “Halloween” mask in places where she knew they’d find them. Other times, she would call her children over, pretending to hold something secret in her hands she wanted to show them. Come see this little kitten, she’d say. When they got close, she’d reveal her hands were empty and tickle them until they squealed. They fell for it every time, and they loved it.

Whenever one of her children was struggling, though, Angie could tell, and knew just how to help. She was also fiercely devoted to Kai, whom she understood completely despite his being nonverbal, and provided him with nearly constant care.

Angie’s children loved cooking and doing crafts with her, and they were in awe of their mother’s artistic abilities. She created paintings, portraits, clay figures, jewelry, decorative objects and elaborate pieces inspired by movies, music, fantasy and pop culture. She saw possibilities in materials other people might overlook, for example, a thrifted object, an oyster shell or a scrap of fabric could become part of something strange, beautiful, funny, or wonderfully unsettling.

Angie contributed handmade pieces to Zeno’s Curious Goods in Eureka for several years, and store owner Joel remembers her as one of the strongest artists he featured. Her work stood out, he said, because she experimented with new subjects and materials, and because of how prolific she was.

Among the pieces she sold at the shop, there were creepy dolls, dragon-themed creations, offbeat jewelry, and work inspired by “It” and “Little Shop of Horrors.” One of her items, an “Evil Dead” Necronomicon book, sold for hundreds of dollars, and customers regularly showed strong interest in everything she made.

Angie also worked at Tailwaggers and Rescue Mission thrift shops, where she made many friends who were older than she was. When her friends fell ill or needed help, Angie cared for them, preparing meals or dropping off Gatorade, tissues and other useful items. She was always there for her friends to talk through problems, offering any support she could.

Angie believed all people should be treated with respect and dignity, and she championed women’s rights. She loved old music, animals, the color green and Coca-Cola. If she wasn’t with her family or working on an art project at home, you could probably find her at Stars Hamburgers. She was there so often, her daughters remember, that friends would send them videos of her car parked in the lot, “ratting her out.” The girls would run over there and Angie would buy them milkshakes.

“That woman was everything to us,” says her daughter Alessa.

Angie was also a registered organ donor. So as she passed from this world, her final act of generosity improved and saved the lives of several strangers. That’s right in line with the kind of person she was – and the kind of person she made other people want to be.

In memory of Angie, donations can be made to a GoFundMe created to help her family with daily living expenses and a celebration of life they hope to hold in the future.

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