Rodolfo (Rudy) Rosales, Jr., son or Rosita Salazar Rosales and Rodolfo Rosales, Sr., was born on January 13, 1968, at the Santa Rosa Hospital, San Antonio, Texas. He passed away Friday, October 25, 2024. He graduated from George W. Brackenridge High School in 1986.

He was very close to all his aunts and uncles as well as his cousins all his life. He was very close to his nephew Gabriel and his niece Bianca and God Father to his other nephew, Nico.

He attended San Antonio College before attending the University of Wisconsin, Madison, through his senior year. After returning to San Antonio in 1998, he joined the National Association of Public Employees (NAPE) as National Representative/ Financial Manager until his untimely passing away. He represented workers throughout San Antonio, from the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, SAISD, Southside ISD and Southwest ISD. Rudy was a co-founder of NAPE with his mother and his brother, Gabriel. He believed everyone has a right to be treated with respect and dignity.

Rudy was also a member of LULAC, where he was elected President of his LULAC Council 4383. He then was elected District Director of LULAC District Fifteen in San Antonio from 2015 to 2019. Rudy eventually ran for and was elected State Director of Texas LULAC, which he held from June 2019 to June 2023. During his tenure as Texas State Director, he stayed in touch with and visited all the different districts in Texas. Throughout his continous leadership in LULAC, he addressed social issues in reproductive rights, LGBT rights, and worker's rights issues. He was also the National Chair of the LULAC LGBT Commitee. In 2019, Rudy sponsored the first LULAC Drag show at the state convention. It was a phenomenal success, in opening the doors to many who did not feel they had a home in LULAC. He was also involved in tenats' rights issues and in 2019, Rudy also publicly addressed the Federal Government's policy, initiated by then President Trump, of separating immigrant children from their parents and in 2020, he addressed Governor Abbotts's cruel fencing of the Rio Grande border with barbed wire. He was also instrumental in supporting and assisting local communities across Texas gaining local polictal representation.

Our Family will miss him profoundly.