May 8, 1918 - January 25, 2011
CANCER without morphine or cobra venom to deaden the pain is a very agonizing disease. Nana Ulli cried and agonized day and night until she died. Pat did not suffer like her because she was very well cared for by Dra. Lourdes Loreto in … [Continue reading]
I was made to report to the Governor of the Province as Agent for Food Production Campaign. When Gov. Dimetrio Juirino learned that I was a Stenographer, he gave me a desk in his office as his Private Secretary and did not allow me to go out … [Continue reading]
Pat, Tony, and I lived with my cousin, Dolores Bravo, and her husband, Agapita Looges, in their cute house in Dubet, Sampaloc, Manila, during my employment as Civil Service Clerk. There Betty was conceived and was born on December 2, … [Continue reading]
Way back in 1939 I took a Civil Service test for Federal Clerk. I passed it and got an equivalent grade as second grade Civil Service employee. I could have been employed in the U.S. Naval Base in Olongapo or in the Air Base in Angeles as … [Continue reading]
When I got well enough to go around, I applied for work in the Academy No. 3 for Bureau of Constabulary soldier in Gagalangin, Sampaloc, Manila. I was accepted. We were newly hired employees to work as janitors and laborers in the big … [Continue reading]
RUTH-ANN SICK Every day I brought Ruth-Ann, the younger sister of Boy (Rudy) to San Lazaro Hospital after it was diagnosed that she had serious gonorrhea infection on both eyes. It was there that I learned a job was being offered for a pay of … [Continue reading]