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Lifestyles Profile - Rodelinda Pérez González By Heather Wilson Beloved by those who knew her and an enigma to others, Rodelinda – or Rode as she was affectionately known – was a determined, intelligent community benefactor: the first elected president of local real estate association AMPI, former president of Vallarta’s Red Cross chapter, supporter of the orphanage and old folks home in Pitillal and a charity that helps kids with drug problems. She donated part of the land for the University of Guadalajara’s Ixtapa campus and contributed to the Los Mangos Public Library. The list goes on, her brother Luis says, “but she preferred anonymity.” Following intense legal problems about 10 years ago, Rodelinda made a complete turnaround, says fellow reiki master Herminia Hernandez. “She went on a retreat for a weekend and returned six months later a much more peaceful person.” Her focus became metaphysical healing, and teaching what she learned came naturally. It was her first job after graduation in 1958 and 40 years later she graduated again, this time as a lawyer. She lived with gusto, “traveling often with friend Dorothy Thompson to Europe, Seattle and Hawaii taking courses,” Luis says. “My wife and I have great memories of cruising the Mediterranean and going to China with her. She went off to meet with Sai Baba in India and when she rejoined us in Hong Kong got so into the slots we couldn’t get her off!” “She’d removed herself from the social circuit to write her memoirs and was in the process of opening a healing school near Guadalajara, intending to give about 20 of her students land so they could build homes there.” Lifelong friend Aurea Applegate misses her “tremendously.” “When I got sick she always brought me herbs and other alternate medications. She, Adel Resendiz and I had a routine of going to dinner every week I felt up to it.” Twice married, she leaves three sons and a daughter, as well as four sisters and six brothers. “Believing in an afterlife, she was always looking to learn from the masters,” Luis says. “Maybe she’d fulfilled the learnings and that’s why she’s gone.”

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