Anita Esther DelRosario Alfaro de Mott, 49, passed away May 5, 2008 in Clinton.

Born May 11, 1958, in Trujillo, Peru, she lived a life of innovation, animation and adaptation. Love garnished and fueled these qualities.

Her gift of innovation may have been inherited from her Godly diligent single mother Marcelina Alfaro, who organized her 11 children so that each girl had two or three brothers to watch, help and cherish. Anita, the youngest sister claimed she had the best two boys, Luis and Manuel. Mother Marcelina, who almost always ended up laughing at Anita before she could get angry or discipline her, appointed Segundo the oldest brother to provide some fatherly structure.

Anita’s innovation brought brightness and creative changes to her loved ones’ lives. As a youth in Peru, she once grew tired of a dark room, so taking a large serrated knife from kitchen, she went up on the roof, sawed through the bamboo and mortar creating the first Peruvian skylight!

Near her last days, her industriousness and strength amazingly increased. She moved a 240-pound fish tank by herself, cared well for dogs, chickens and a husband and worked two jobs, care giving in homes and at the Maple Ridge care center.

Anita’s animated character took her through many adventures and learning experiences. She graduated from Peru National University of Trujillo, then drama school. She worked for the church planting evangelism, helping hands and Love in Action. Serving with Food for the Hungry in the shanty towns of Trujillo for eight years, she showed her care for her own people.

Anita graduated from Nipawin Bible Institute in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1997 after three years of study. About this time, she met and fell in love with John Mott so deeply that she corresponded with him for three years from Peru, and then married him three times: first in a Peruvian civil matrimony on March 1, 2002; a Peruvian church wedding, April 27, 2002 and an American vow-renewal, April 27, 2007 at Langley CMA Church.

During their early married life, they taught English side by side at Cesar Vallejo University, and later at a Christian school and other language institutes.

Anita adapted to life married to a gringo as well as to a new culture on Whidbey Island in the fall of 2005. Her self-giving love touched lives as she danced marinera, represented her Peru and walked with Jesus.

Anita’s innovation and animation now blesses everyone in a new place where it is no problem for her to adapt, her true home Heaven.

“Do not let your hearts be troubled, believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you,

I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am there you may be also and you know the way where I am going,” (John 14:1-4).

She is survived by her husband, John of Langley; sisters and brothers Santos Angelita, Segundo, Victor, Walter, Rosa Maria, Jose, Juan, Andres, Luis, Manuel DelRosario; mother-in-law, Frances Mott, Langley; two sisters-in-law, Peggy Mott, Freeland, and Pauline (Korey) Stamon, Montesano; and very dear friends, Bill and Lindy Benjamin.

A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 15 at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church in Langley. Interment will be in Trujillo, Peru.

Arrangements are under the direction of Visser Funeral Home, Langley.