Patricia Ann Rodriguez

My mother, aged 71, died this morning sometime around 2am EST. She was a 19 year lung cancer survivor, but, it weakened her lungs, and three bouts of pneumonia this year was too much fir her. She was told 18.5 years ago that she only had 6 months.

She was a passionate member and state president of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, of which she was involved with for 35 years.

I love her very much and I will genuinely miss her. We had a complicated relationship that I don't want to get into.

I just want to memorialize her somehow.