Louise Pauline Mumbleau

1934 - 2025

Louise Pauline Mumbleau passed away at 90 years of age on October 16, 2025 in Reno, Nevada. Louise was born to Louis and Pauline (Tambini) Prole on November 20, 1934, in San Jose, California. Her were pioneers settling in Northern California and Nevada.
She the oldest of two girls and she matured quickly with their early years away at Catholic schools. When she graduated high school in Alamada, California she returned home to June Lake to help her parents business Louis's Supermarket Market, in the Eastern Sierra town of June Lake, California. The family operated Louis's Market and freight services from 1932 into the early 1960s. It was there Louise met William (Bill) Norman Mumbleau. Bill's family-owned Camp Culver Resort in June Lake. Soon after the two of them fell in love and in 1955, Bill proposed to his sweetheart, Louise. There they began they live and raised their three children in June Lake until the need for better schools move them from their beloved Eastern Sierra. So, Bill and Louise, in 1965, found Chino, California and for more than 55 years. Coming to Southern California from their Sierras presented the young Mumbleau family with new challenges, but Louise was the family foundation. She loved her home in Chino very much. But she always longed for the days that she would return back home to June Lake and the Eastern Sierras.
Louise was child of God's love that grew with her relationship with the Sisters of the Presentation and her love for her eternal teacher, Sister Mary Euphemia, PVBM, Archdiocese of San Francisco. Sister Mary Euphemia taught and cared for the young boarders at St. Mary's elementary school in Gilroy, California where Louise and her sister Jocelyn went to school. From that moment, Louise and her teacher were inseparable. For over eighty years they friendship surrounded the whole family.
Louise was a working Mom. She was always busy doing things for her family, working at various jobs. She was just like her Mom and Dad already busy. This led to her opening her own business, Mum's Enchanted Florist in Montclair. She was a true businesswoman, like her parents and was easy to talk to. Before you knew it, she knew everything about you.
Louise took great joy being a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She loved her family so much and was very proud of all of their accomplishments. She was a very strong woman and was the true mother hen looking over her chicks. Louise loved being around people. She was every kid's Mom in the Chino Valley. She could just meet you once and you knew she was the real thing. She enjoyed photography and cooking her family many Italian dishes.
Louise is survived by her sister, Jocelyn Raaf of Desert Hot Springs CA. Her three children's families, William and Jean Mumbleau, Reno, Richard and Dawn, Reno, and granddaughter, Madeline Mumbleau, Salt Lake City, Terrie (Mumbleau) and Mike Griffitts (son-in-law), Wildomar, California. Grandchildren and great-grandcildren – Michael (Mikey) Griffitts (son), Wildomar, Branden Griffitts (son), Amanda Griffitts (daughter-in-law), Ailey Griffitts (granddaughter), Breckston Griffitts (grandson), Needingworth, England and Carissa Tjenstrom (Griffitts) daughter, Eric Tjenstrom (son-in-law), Hazel Tjenstrom (granddaughter) and Autumn Tjenstrom (granddaughter), Commerce City, Colorado.
Services will be, a Catholic mass, for Louise Pauline Mumbleau will be at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Reno, Nevada on November 20, 10:30 a.m. Louise will be buried next to her love of her life, Bill, at the Mono Lake Cemetery, Mono County, California.