Angels Camp, CA…Valena (Ena) Lynn Rolleri, of Angels Camp, CA., passed away at home on October 20th at the age of 71 after a short battle with cancer. Born on January 17,1953, in Sonora, CA to Vernon and Bootsie Webber, she was raised in Jamestown, CA, until middle school. Her family moved around during her later school years, but, she ultimately came back to her roots and graduated from Sonora High in 1971. After High School, Valena started working in her father’s grocery store in Angels Camp, CA.

Valena moved to Reno, NV in the early 70’s where she met her lifelong friends Bud and Gail Davis. She worked as a bookkeeper for a variety of businesses, then in the early 80’s she moved back to Angels Camp, CA., to run her father’s business: Vern’s Liquors and Sporting Goods. In 1999 Valena began a relationship with the love of her life, Romie Rolleri, a partnership that would last until her passing. She quickly became a key member of Rolleri Landscape Products, keeping the books, stacking rocks, driving the forklift, as well as working in the family vineyard picking, pruning, tying, and irrigating the grapes.

One passion Valena and Romie shared was taking part in the life and well-being of their many nieces, nephews, and unofficial family they built along the way. They would often take whole groups of them camping at the beach, on road trips across the countryside, or simply out for a meal on a Saturday afternoon. Valena and Romie have a way of sweeping people into their family and holding them close. Valena was also a protector of hummingbirds and fed and housed many generations of them in her various gardens and hanging flowerpots. More than one of Ena’s kids can remember being lifted onto her shoulders to peer into a tiny nest made of spider silk and moss.

Valena is preceded in death by her father, mother, and brothers Brett and Jerry Webber. She is dearly missed by her husband Romie Rolleri, brother and sister-in-law Dick and Carla Rolleri, and a flock of nieces, nephews and family adopted along the way.

A Celebration of Life will be held November 16th from 11-2 at the Angels Gun Club.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to either:

Sonora Hospice, 20100 Cedar Road North, Sonora, California 95370

Or

Hummingbird Monitoring Network, P.O. Box 115, Patagonia, Arizona 85624