Activist Matriarch Isabel Rodriguez Passes - LA

“It’s with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mother, Isabel Rodriguez, 94, who died early Tuesday morning May 20 of natural causes at Alhambra Community Hospital,” said Jaime Rodriguez, an aid to state Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello.

Isabel Rodriguez was born July 8, 1913 in Basis, a silver mining town in the Mexican state of Durango. She crossed the border of El Paso, Texas and came to Los Angeles residing in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles. For a time, according to Jaime, she worked in the laundry department of the Los Angeles County General Hospital. A single parent, she was a strong willed and caring mother who along with her sons and daughter became an active and passionate supporter of the Latino Civil Rights Movement of the late sixties and early seventies.

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