Jose Tomas Rodriguez, a retired stock broker, died Tuesday at his home in Ventura. He was 102.
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He was born Dec. 21, 1896, in Bogota, Colombia. For more than 50 years, he worked for the Columbian Stock Exchange as a broker.
After retiring, he moved to Oxnard in the late 1960s. He became bored with retirement so he became a maintenance worker at St. John’s Regional Medical Center. Rodriguez retired again in 1980.
He was a parishioner of Santa Clara and Sacred Heart churches.
He is survived by daughters Anna Gloria Rodriguez of Ventura, Yolanda Quitero of Oxnard and Carmenza Pedersen of Ventura; sons Nelson and Jesus of Bogota; 17 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Rodriguez was preceded in death by his wife, Maria, a son, Henry, and a daughter, Omaria.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Friday at the Joseph Reardon Funeral Home in Ventura.
A Mass is scheduled at 10 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart Church in Ventura, with Father John Higgins officiating. Interment will follow at Santa Clara Cemetery in Oxnard.
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