This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Rina Rodriguez.
Funeral Services will be held on Monday, January 7, 2019 at 10:30am in the Chapel at Queen of Peace Residence, 110-30 221 Street, Queens Village, NY 11429, with Father Evans Julce officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Gill Lane, Iselin, NJ 08830.
The family will receive friends on Sunday, January 6, 2019 between 2pm-5pm and 7pm-9pm at Queen of Peace Residence. http://www.littlesistersofthepoorqueens.org/contac...
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My Mom always shared a funny story. One she told us whenever Tia or Tio's name came up. Tio Beto was super smitten with Tia Rina.. totally in-love! He used to send his youngest sister (Mami) to take walks that coincidentally always took her by the Noya house. She had to report back whether Rina was home :)
Fishing with Rina.
Finca La Toma, Camagüey, Cuba. 1962. Under Fidel Castro's dictatorship. After we lost our freedom, we still had a small row boat
What's with that smile!
A recurring theme when people talk about mom is her smile. Mom smiled and often did so even through her pain, because that is what she wanted to leave you with, her smile. Mom would smile at total strangers, which would get her a ribbing from Tia Nena.
We would get on the bus to go shopping to A&S, and no sooner did mom step foot on the bus she'd start smiling at everyone. This would invite conversation, from others; conversation in English that mom did not understand. So, she would sit there , smiling and nodding her head and saying one of the very few words she knew how to say in English. "Yes"...smile..."yes" ...grin.."yes"...
We would get off the bus and Tia Nena would tease her "wipe that idiot grin off your face, for all you know they could have been cursing you out and you're smiling at them".
We would all get a kick out of the sisterly banter and laugh about it. Someone else might have become inhibited afterward, but not mom. None of it stopped her from smiling on the bus trip back home.