Jose "Joe" Jimenez

1930 - 2014

JOSE "JOE" JIMENEZ, a resident of Norco, CA, passed peacefully in the presence of his family on October 17, 2014, at the age of 84. Jose was raised on a family-owned cheese dairy in Chino, where he helped support his mother and siblings following his father's unexpected death in 1942. In 1952 Jose and his family moved to Pomona, where he would later meet his bride of 60 years, Grace Veloz; there they raised their two sons and later moved to Norco in 1976. In his early years he worked as a superintendent at construction sites, later working as a general contractor/business owner specializing in concrete. Jose had a priceless sense of humor and loved life by spending time with family and friends, enjoying music, dancing, riding motorcycles and flying his airplane. Jose is survived by his wife Grace, their two sons and their families; Joseph Wayne and wife Yolanda and their two children, Vanessa and Adrian; Robert Eric and wife Rachel and their three daughters, Brooke, Briana and Bianca, as well as his remaining six siblings, Micaela, Elsie, Grace, Beatrice, Edward and Rita. Memorial Service: Stone Funeral Home, 355 East 9th St., Upland, Ca. 91786 on Wed., Oct..29 at 9:30 am.