Ruby Rodriquez
Ruby Rodriguez, a former Don Lugo High student who in December 2006 said, "I'm living my life to the fullest," died March 20, 2008, of the cancer she had battled for more than four years.

Miss Rodriguez, 19 died at Kaiser Hospital in Fontana, more than a year after undergoing surgery in December 2006 that removed a half-dollar size tumor from between her lungs and heart.She also lost two-thirds of her lung during that surgery.

Miss Rodriguez was diagnosed with cancer of the soft tissues near the upper bone of her left arm in October 2003.Doctors removed the cancer, nearby muscles and the bone, replacing it with a metal rod.
She spent most of her freshman year at Don Lugo in Chino undergoing chemotherapy. She had been in remission three years when the cancer returned in summer 2006.

Miss Rodriguez's mother, Fabiola Vargas of Chino, said the cancer came back again last December. She said her daughter, who had been tutored during her illness, had completed a general education class last summer at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut. She said her daughter wanted to be a criminal investigator.

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