Joey and Darlene Floriano Family

 

Family Name Date of Birth Place of Birth Where Now
Jose (Joey) Soares Floriano October 30, 1961 Rosais, Sáo Jorge, Portugal Madera, CA USA
Darlene Louise (Litke) Floriano February 15, 1964 Inglewood, CA USA Madera, CA USA
Jennafer (Jenna) Louise Floriano February 21, 1985 Merced, CA USA Madera, CA USA
Dominic Joseph Floriano December 6, 1991 Merced, CA USA Madera, CA USA
Gabriel James Floriano March 15, 1998 Albuquerque, NM USA Madera, CA USA

 

Joey Soares Floriano

    

Joey Floriano was born in Rosais, Sáo Jorge (English pronunciation: St. George), Portugal (one of the 9 Açores (English pronunciation: Azores) Islands off of the banks of Lisbon Portugal) in 1961. to Joe M Floriano and Teresa Soares Floriano.  During his life in Portugal he sustained illnesses.  He had a bout of Gout.  The doctors there at that time did not have an idea of what his illness was and contemplated removing his foot.  But miraculously his pains went away and they left his foot be (this was later diagnosed by doctors in the US as Gout).  He also went through a period of time where he could not speak this too seemed to be a mystery but he again for some reason without an idea of the causes of his muteness started talking again about a year later (maybe psychological reasons for his muteness, it just was never determined).  He played soccer there as a child and loved the game.  He lived there until he was 12 years old.  He then along with his older brother Danny and father Joe went to the United States to work.  His mother Teresa, younger brother Simon and sister Rosie stayed in Portugal to care for Teresa's ailing father Domingos.  Joe went back to Portugal with his wife and other children and they would later come 2 1/2 years later to join their sons in the US after the death of Teresa's father Domingos.  They would also be joined by Teresa's mother Maria.  Joey worked for his uncles on a Dairy in Merced, CA starting at the age of 12.  He worked outside driving tractors and truck-trailer rigs ( his favorite thing to do, as he hated milking the cows).  

 

In 1978 he met Darlene Litke at a dance at Buhach Hall, a favorite place for older teens to go to dance every Saturday night.  They met a few time there but then Darlene moved to another town but later they would meet again....

Darlene Louise (Litke) Floriano     

    

Darlene was born in Inglewood, CA (Where the famous Los Angeles Lakers Basketball team's stadium is) in 1964.  She was born to James Allen Like and Margaret Louise (Blanchard) Litke.  They along with her older sister Karen, lived in Southern California for her first 7 years.  Then in 1971 her father and mother moved the family to Merced, CA for work.  Soon after her father and mother separated and divorced.  She lived in Merced with her mother and sister until the summer of 1979.  She then moved to Groveland, CA to live with her father and step-mother at the time DeDee.  She wanted to spend time some equal with her father.  That only lasted about a year and a half.  Relations with her step-mother were strained.  Darlene then decided to move back to Merced with her mother and sister. 
 Not long after her move back she met Joey Floriano again.  They from that time on in January of 1981 went steady.  On July 30, 1983 Joey and Darlene married.  They stayed living in Merced while Joey worked on the dairy farm where his uncles owned and operated.  In 1985 Joey and Darlene had their first child a daughter, Jennafer Louise Floriano, in 1991 they had their second child Dominic.  in 1993 Joey's father Joe retired from the same dairy farm and so they moved into the two-story house Joey had loved living in and grew up in as a teenager.  In 1995 however Joey and Darlene would experience a separation and then divorce.  During their period of separation Joey and Darlene contemplated reconciliation, it was a very strained time in their lives.  During their courtship Joey sustained a back injury that would render him unable to work again.  Joey and Darlene did reconcile and remarry in December 1996.  From October of 1966 thru March 1997, Darlene worked for her step-brother in law for his tree service doing special interest projects and mastering their web site.  She needed something more substantial and with a future for her and her family.  Unable to find good paying work locally she sought employment in Albuquerque, New Mexico where her sister and her sisters family lived.  She accepted a position there with an Internet Service Provider as a General Manager of their Albuquerque node.  In 1998 Darlene had their third child Gabriel.  After almost 2 years with the ISP and long hours she found herself mentally exhausted and needing more time with her family. She accepted an office managers job with a customer that had been asking her to go to work for them for some time.  She loved the work very much and came with that job great friends.  She liked working in the Food Marketing and Manufacturing industry.  Unfortunately Joey's injuries have left him a lot of pain which meant frequent trips to the hospital were becoming the norm.  So they decided they needed to move back to California where they had more family support around them.  Darlene took work with a DOT COM company  in Fresno, California and so they found a house in Madera, and settled there.  After 7 months the DOT COM (like so many others in this day in age) went out of business.  Darlene did find her way back in her favorite industry (Food Manufacturing), and was a manager at an Olive Cannery in Madera.  She since has moved on.  She worked for a foodservice food broker which lead her to her current position as the Western Regional Sales Manager of the worlds largest Egg Packer.     

 

    

 

Jennafer Louise Floriano

Jennafer Louise Floriano was born in Merced, CA in 1985.  She graduated from Furman High School in 2003 where played in the Madera High School Band.  They won Grand Sweepstakes at the Central California Regional Band Review in Merced, CA several years in a row.  Jennafer started playing Clarinet in the 3rd grade at Weaver School.  After a few years in the band there her teacher saw her talent and asked her to move onto another instrument.  She then started playing Saxophone.  She has since moved on to keyboard, melaphone, French horn, and now her latest passion guitar.  She is very musically talented and her list of instruments includes a total of 12 now..  If you would like to know more about Jennafer she has her own page she designed click on her name on the left to go.  Jennafer is now grown up to be a beautiful young woman is is currently doing school food service bids in the Bay area for a Food Broker.

Dominic Joseph Floriano was born in Merced, CA in 1991. Dominic now attends a brand new Junior High School in Madera, CA called John Desmond. Dominic is now in the 8th grade and plays on the golf team.  He at this time aspires to be an Paleontologist or an Archeologist. To learn more about Dominic go to his personal page by clicking his name on the right.

Dominic Joseph Floriano

Gabriel James Floriano

          

Gabriel James Floriano was born in Albuquerque, NM in 1998.  Gabriel is now in the 3rd grade.  Gabriel likes to build things.  He aspires to be a lot of different things.  He is a very talented artist and draws well for his age.  He attends Berenda Elementary school in Madera, CA.  To learn more about Gabriel click on his name on the left.