ANGELINA POMPA TARIN

10/11/1933 - 05/21/2022

Angelina Tarin died peacefully at her home May 21, 2022, at 88 years old. She had 4 children—Lisa, Eric, Valerie and her first son Milovan, who passed away in 2021. Angie is also survived by grandchildren Carissa, Sylvester, Evan, LeaAnn & Cyndi, great-grandchildren Angeline & Ezme, DIL Shiela and ex Melque Pompa. She was the Tarin matriarch, and is loved by all the children of her siblings Lucy, Aurora, Jay, Raymond, Vera, Freddie and Gracie, the grandchildren of Gregorio and Maximina Tarin.

The first in her family to graduate from high school, Angie was a lifelong activist for women’s rights and social justice, and had more courage in her little finger... Her father, our “Tata,” a red headed Spanish speaking native Texan, married our Nana from Agua Caliente, raised in the Chumash tribal ways by her adoptive mother. They would bring Angie and their other seven children to pick fruit—Angie loved figs her whole life, but said picking cotton was hard though her little hands did it well. Always a hard worker, she brought that ethic to her social justice activism. She faced down the barrel of a gun as a clinic escort for women seeking health care, and many a story is told of her stopping randomly to enforce labor laws when she found workers sweating in the hot sun without breaks, returning 2x daily until the jefe supplied shade, water and paid them properly.

Angie Tarin Pompa owned her home in Claremont for 50+ years, serving as a caregiver and housekeeper for employers who became friends, and for family.

As a tribute, consider sending a donation in her honor to KPFK at https://www.kpfk.org.