Amy E. Ramos; Parenting Program Teacher

Amy Ellen Ramos, a Thousand Oaks teacher who fought a six-year battle with breast cancer, died Tuesday of complications from the disease. She was 39.

Ramos, who taught at the Conejo Valley Adult School’s Horizon Hills Parenting Program, lived in Thousand Oaks with her husband Ron and their children, Jessica, 10, and Matthew, 8.

Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Aug. 5, 1957, Ramos moved to Southern California when she was 5 years old.

She and her husband, an aerospace engineer in Canoga Park, met at a bowling league in Woodland Hills in 1983. They were married in February 1985.

“She was a caring and involved [person] and outstanding with kids,” Ron Ramos said. “I will miss getting together and doing all the things we used to do like camping, our kids’ sports, vacations.”

She was a “highly respected” teacher at the adult school, Principal David Woodruff said.

“The contribution that she has made to our parenting program was just extraordinary,” he said. “She was always full of energy, active and coming up with ideas. She worked in such a positive way with all of our colleagues.”

In addition to her husband and children, Ramos is survived by her mother, Micki Emmer; a brother, Howard Emmer, and a sister, Jane Emmer.

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Pierce Brothers Griffin Mortuary, Thousand Oaks, with a graveside service at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Cemetery, Westlake Village.