NorCal man’s ashes, urn reported stolen

NorCal man’s ashes, urn reported stolen
The Associated Press
Posted: 01/18/2011 09:14:59 PM PST

LAFAYETTE, Calif.-The family of a Northern California software company
founder says his ashes have been stolen from a private mausoleum in
Lafayette.

Relatives of Thomas Gonzales Jr. tell the Contra Costa Times they are
offering a $10,000 reward for the return of his ashes and urn. The theft was discovered Monday morning by employees of Oakmont Memorial Park.

Gonzales co-founded Commerce One in Pleasanton in 1994, and the company became one of the San Francisco Bay area’s early dot-com success stories.

That success didn’t last, and the software maker ultimately filed for
bankruptcy and was acquired by another company in 2006.

Gonzales died of gastric cancer in 2001.

His family says his urn could be mistaken for gold but is not valuable.

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The burglars are in custody, they said that they thought the ashes were dope and snorted it!