YOLO ❤️ Gracias  Mijo por ser tu💔💔🥲

 Mijo! Mijo! Mijo! Te extraño mas de lo que tu te pudieras imaginar!!! 
 I ❤️ You to infinity and beyond!!  💔💔

Marco, thank you for being the love of my life, father, best friend, and our old man. I cannot believe nineteen years have flown by so fast. I still see the nineteen-year-old with the deepest dimples and gorgeous smile I had ever seen. I remember our first date you came to the door like a gentleman, and when I opened it, I had to tell you to hurry and run because the dogs were out in the yard. I kept apologizing as you just laughed. Climbing into your grandma’s truck I slide over to open your door and again I got dazed with your smile and dimples. The cream jacket you wore fit you well and I could see the sparkle from your earrings. From then on, we had many first-time adventures. Racing mustangs down 43rd in the accord. To being chased by some crazy guy, cops almost taking us in when we were by the house on Jefferson. The first time we got kicked out of Cesar’s in Vegas for you being under twenty-one. Lastly, the biggest rush of our lives our girls Leilani and Trinity. The best adventures were always with them.   

Your legacy lives on forever with our girls and their future children. It has been an honor to see how you loved them. I loved how you would drive baby Leilani around for an hour just to put her to sleep or how you helped Trinity master reading leading her to be a published author at the age of twelve. The road has been far from easy, and we had many challenges to get them here, but you did such a great job. We have lived so much life together more than most people experience. We have always been like two magnets no matter how hard you force them apart the force pulls them back together. So, over these last years, you made our time the best with our daughters, your only queens. Life blessed me with a man who would love his daughters until the end and that you did old man. There were so many more adventures left in this life with our girls. We were so close to planning our Hawaii trip next year with them. You were supposed to be here to watch Leilani graduate next year, then move on to bigger and greater things. After that, you were to drive up with us to NAU for my master’s graduation. We may not be able to see you or feel you, but you will be with us always wherever we go. 

We may have not gotten to spend this Christmas with you, but the girls and I are comforted in knowing we had you all year for all holidays. Thank you for always making time for movie night, Rookie, 911, gaming and all the years of comic con we shared as a family. Thank you for always making me lunch or just hanging out to watch your tow truck shows with me. These recent years brought us much closer, and you always took care of us when we were sick. You always made me albondigas to nurse me back to health. I can only hope I did enough to take care of you when you were in pain. I could keep going on because after all, we have had nineteen years of love, fights, laughter, and grief. All these memories could fill the pages of a book. Keep watch over us all until we see you again. You will always be my Chewie and I know your home now.  
-"Grrrrowr"


Dear Marco,
You are truly missed. I am blessed to have known you. I remember our times at AZFED.  You were always a kind and loving person. 
Until we see each other again Rest in Peace. 

The best memory, I will never forget the last time I was in AZ. I was saying goodbye and I was almost in my truck, Chato yells " Hey! Ain't you going to give me a hug?" So I run back and give him a big hug, and say goodbye.  🥲May you rest in peace cousin🙏

Marco, you were such a good friend and a wonderful sports buddy.  I enjoyed going to games with you and will miss that so much.  My favorite memories of you will always be of you and your “fashion choices” .  They were and always be be one of a kind Marco designs and only you could rock them.  Work will not be the same with out your loud music. I miss you friend. 

Marco was a good friend and sounding board for anything you needed to talk about. He had the biggest heart out of anyone I have ever met. He would do anything for his family and friends. I know that if I were to ever break down on the side of the road or get a flat tire, he would come to the rescue. I'm going to miss him. Although we didn't keep in contact as much after our time together at Arizona Federal,  I know that I could have called him at anytime  if needed. He's gone too soon but I'm thankful that I was able to know him.
Blessings and thoughts to his girls and entire family. 

Marco was my brother. He had the biggest heart out of anyone I havld ever met. He would do anything for his family and friends. He was there for the good times and the bad ones. He was there to help me through some of the hardest points in my life. I'm going to miss him deeply. I will miss our adventures we had, the stories, the pictures and all the things we still wanted to do. He's gone too soon but I'm thankful that he was part of my life while he was here.

Cousin memories of you will stay with me forever and I will always be great full that you took the time to help my dad with his car and that you stayed with me after his funeral and comfort me when I most needed it.  You were and will always be one of the most beautiful people in my life.  Please take care of family there for us and give my daddy and mom a big hug/kiss for me. 
Until we meet again
Patty

Marco was my brother in law Justin Anthony's best friend . He was considered family.  He even came to Arkansas to my sons high school graduation. He fell in love with hushpuppies while he was here. He was a very fine young man.He will be missed lots by many.

Mi Tesoro, 
No ha pasado un dia en el que no piense en ti.  Desde el primer dia que nos conocimos ya sabia que tu y yo ibamos a ser amigos de por vida.  Y nuestra Amistad despues de dos años de conocernos,  cambio a algo mas que amigos.  La verdad es que me recogiste cuando mas necesitaba rescate y yo a ti.  Yo tenia miedo de enamorarme de ti.  Pero tu tenias esa manera de hablarme solo con tus ojos.  Me enamore perdidamente de ti.  De tu personalidad terca, de tu forma de ser, de todas tus payasadas.  Pero lo que mas que cautivo de ti, es y siempre sera, el amor a tus hija y a tu familia.  Me enseñaste a ser la mejor version de mi.   Te amo mi cielo.  


OBITUARY

Marco "Chato" Antonio Rodriguez II

June 18, 1981 – December 26, 2021

Greenwood Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery

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