"Ciao, Lola!"

Her Journey

  • Republika ng Pilipinas
    1929 – 1949

    Lola spent the first two decades of her life in the Philippines before emigrating to the United States a month shy of her 20th birthday.

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  • California
    1949 – 1950

    Immigrating to the US
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    • Lola posing in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park with a relaxed smile + Shirley Temple-inspired curls, most likely in the Fall of 1949, shortly after immigrating from the Philippines. This enlarged + framed photo was the most iconic of Lola in our family home.

  • Camp Roberts, Presidio, Fort Monmouth
    1951 – 1961

    Becoming a mother and military wife
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  • Napoli, Italy & The European Chapter
    1962 – 1965

    Living Overseas in Italy (When in Naples, Do as the Neapolitans Do)

  • City, State & Chapter Name
    1965 – 1969

  • City, State & Chapter Name
    1970s–

  • City, State & Chapter Name
    1980s–

  • City, State & Chapter Name
    1990s–

  • City, State & Chapter Name
    2000

    2009 80th Birthday Party. About the event.

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  • City, State & Chapter Name
    2010

  • City, State & Chapter Name
    2020–