Thomas Garcia:  

Thomas “Tommy” Garcia passed away on Tuesday, October 13th, 2020, at home. He was born in Los Angeles but grew up primarily in Oxnard, attending public schools there and graduating from Hueneme High School in 1977. Tommy always enjoyed learning, particularly about science and technology, and attended classes at Oxnard College, Ventura College, and Cal State Northridge. He received his AA in Mathematics from Ventura College in 1980, an AS in Engineering from Ventura College in 1987, and an AS in Electronics with honors from Oxnard College in 1989. After he completed his schooling, Tommy worked as an electronics technician his whole life throughout Ventura County. His first job was with Data Exchange, in Camarillo, where he worked from 1988-2002. After that, he worked for various other companies as an Electronics Technician, most notably at Interlink in Camarillo for 9 years from 2003-2012 and again for a while in 2015. He loved his work, often telling stories of his work experiences and the friends he made there and also loved hearing about others’ Dilbert-like work stories. In his spare time, he enjoyed tinkering with electronics at home and creating Electronic-based light-up toys and gifts for his family members and also selling them at local street and county fairs. Tommy loved everything science-fiction related, movies, and spending time with his family especially at Birthdays and Holidays. He p gcvfrh articularly loved Halloween and everything related to it! On...Expand for more