Cerini Family History, Part J2: Pomi Children

Lodovico R. Pomi (1887-1912)

1173233531. Lodovico “Louis” R. Pomi was the first-born son of Annonziatta Cerini and Frank Pomi. He was born on 16 Jun 1887 in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland, and baptized there the following day as Lodovius Baptista Antonius. Raphael and Rosalia Cerini were named as his godparents.^{[Bap 1887]} Louie immigrated with his mother in 1890. He married Corina Beatrice Soldati, also the daughter of Italian-Swiss immigrants, and had two sons. After Louis' death Corina remarried to her widower brother-in-law, Romildo Louis Mazza, who had three children:

Louis emigrated with his mother at the age of two by way of Le Havre, France, arriving in New York aboard the La Bretagne on September 29, 1890, and bound for San Francisco.^{[Pass 1890]}

During the 1910 census, the Pomis were living at 101 Upham Street in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. They had only been married for seven months at the time and Corina was likely pregnant with Francis. Louie was working in a grocery store at the time.^{[Cen 1910]} The Pomis thereafter moved to north to Penngrove where Louis raised poultry.

Two years later, Lodovico “Louis” Pomi died of typhoid fever on the evening of Friday, October 4, 1912, at the age of 25 years. Louis was initially buried with his father at Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Santa Rosa but later removed to Sebastopol. Following the death and burial of youngest brother Candin Albert in 1916, he was again removed, along with his father, and reinterred with his brother at the Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Petaluma on May 18, 1916.

During the 1920 census, Corina was enumerated living with her remarried mother, Louise (Bianchini Soldati) Bolla, in Petaluma, along with her young boys.^{[Cen 1920]}

Between 1922 and 1930, Corina remarried to Romildo Louis Mazza, a dairyman born to Italian-Swiss immigrants, who had previously been married to her younger sister, Jennie I. (Soldati) Mazza (1888-1922). She moved in at the Mazza residence up San Antonio Road and along Red Hill Road, just across the county line from Petaluma in northern Marin County.^{[Cen 1930]}

Romilda Louis Mazza died the night of October 15, 1934, at his home in San Antonio, Marin County. He was buried at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Petaluma along with his first wife, Jennie. He was 58 years old.

Corina Beatrice (Soldati Pomi) Mazza died 47 years later on March 29, 1982, in Sonoma County, a week short of her 95th birthday. She had been living in Petaluma at the time.

Henry Joseph Pomi^Δ (1892-1985)

1173233532. Henry Joseph Pomi^Δ was born in Sonoma County, California, on either October 31 or November 1, 1892. He appears to have been the first of the Cerini family to be born in California. (His maternal cousin Walter Bellon was the first of the Cerini family to be born in America). He married Therese Sophie Andresen, an immigrant from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, of Danish lineage, on March 29, 1914, in Petaluma, Sonoma County, and had three children:

The Pomi family started in Analy Township, Sonoma County, where Henry farmed.^{[Cen 1920]} By 1930 they moved to Petaluma and rented a home at 1010 “F” Street in Petaluma. Henry worked at a gas company and son Albert milked cows at a dairy.^{[Cen 1930]}

Henry and Therese divorced during the 1930s and moved out of town by 1935 where he worked at a chicken ranch by 1940.^{[Cen 1940A]} He later remarried the widow Lois Bernardine (Shepard) Platz who was born on November 22, 1897, in California.

Therese remarried to Louis Ernie. They were likely together as early as 1935 when both lived in Cummings, Mendocino County, about 165 miles north up Highway 101 from Petaluma. They returned south and resettled in San Rafael, Marin County, where Louis worked as an automobile salesman and daughter Mabel worked as a sale clerk at a bakery.^{[Cen 1940B]}

Henry Joseph Pomi died in Sonoma County, while living in Rohnert Park, on December 30, 1968, at the age of 76. He is buried with his parents and brothers at the Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California.

Henry's widow, Lois Bernardine (Shepard Platz) Pomi died in October 1985 while living in Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California.

Candin Albert Pomi (1894-1916)

1173233533. Candin Albert Pomi was born December 9, 1894, on the Daywalt tract in Analy Township, east of Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California. He graduated from Mount Vernon School on Gravenstein Highway.

Candin Albert Pomi died following a brief illness at the family home on Friday afternoon, April 28, 1916. He was only 21 years old. He was buried at the Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California, on May 2.

A week after Candin's burial, arrangements were begun to remove the remains of his father and eldest brother Louis from their resting place in Sebastopol and to place them along side him in Petaluma.

Mabel (Pomi) Bellon Badenhop (1896-1981)

1173233534. Mabel Dorothy Pomi was born in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California, on February 8, 1896. She married Walter Michael Bellon, her cousin on their mothers' sides, on August 23, 1919, in Santa Rosa.^{[Mar 1919]} They lived with Mabel's mother and stepfather along Gravenstein Highway, south of Sebastopol in Analy Township, and divorced after 1930.^{[Cen 1920,1930]} After their divorce, Mabel moved into Santa Rosa and took care of two court wards, Donald and Beverly Poggi.^{[Cen 1940]} Mabel is recalled to have adopted Beverly.

Mabel's cousin Walter Bellon moved in with her family in Hessel Precinct in Analy township (southeast of Sebastopol along Gravenstein Highway) by 1917, where he farmed for her mother and stepfather.^{[Draft 1917]} He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War I, and three months after his return the two cousins married on August 23, 1919, at Saint Rose Catholic Church at B Street and 10th Street in Santa Rosa. They were wed by Rev. John M. Cassin.^{[Mar 1919]} After their marriage they continued to live with Mabel's mother through her death in 1929, and continued to live with Mabel's stepfather through 1930.^{[Cen 1920,1930]}

Mabel and Walter divorced in the early 1930s.^{[Cen 1940]} Walter moved to San Francisco, married a divorced nurse, had a daughter, and then moved to Lodi.

Mabel moved into Santa Rosa where she rented 1046 Third Street by 1940. There she lived with her second cousin Mike Magatelli and two court wards, Donald and Beverly Poggi, children of John and the late Sylvia (Yeager) Poggi of Sebastopol.^{[Cen 1940, 1950]}

Mabel remarried to Christopher “Chris” Badenhop, an immigrant from Giersdorf, Hanover, Germany, on March 1, 1952, in Santa Rosa. They lived at 1048 Third Street in Santa Rosa, where Chris worked as a manager at Yellow Cab.^{[Nat 1955]}

Chris immigrated from Germany in 1909 and filed his declaration of intention to naturalize in 1917, during World War I; however, his petition was not completed until 1955 when he took his oath. He was 5' 8" tall, 155 to 158 pounds, with a fair complexion, light brown eyes, and brown hair, and a scar on the right side of his upper lip.^{[Nat 1955]}

Christopher Badenhop died on May 15, 1973 at the age of 77 or 78. He was residing in Santa Rosa at the time.

Mabel Dorothy (Pomi Bellon) Badenhop died eight years later on August 22, 1981, at the age of 85 while residing in Santa Rosa. She was laid to rest at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Petaluma.^[Grave]