Philip Dudley Cezar is one of the seven children of David Francisco Cezar and Rebecca Dudley. Naturally gifted in basketball, the young Philip and his four brothers could easily best older neighborhood kids in the sport. Philip played with the va...
Eduardo Alvir Pacheco was born on 06 January 1936. He married an Hernandez clan member, Maria Lourdes H. Marqueta. A competitive athlete since his youth, he played varsity basketball and football for San Beda College and the University of S...
Jose Abella Diaz was born to Domingo Abella and Concepcion Isaac Abella. A blue-blooded Atenean, he graduated from high school in 1938. He was set to finish his BS in Commerce in 1942 when war broke out. Peping was among the volunteers from the...
(The MaPapeles Series looks closely at historical documents in search of serendipitous discoveries about how our ancestors lived.) This record of my great-great-great-great grandparents’ marriage in 1812 was taken from the Registros Matr...
Bibiana Abella Diaz was born on 17 August 1917 in Naga, Albay, Philippines. She was the eldest child of Domingo Abella and Concepcion Isaac Abella. Babing, as she was nicknamed, attended the the Colegio de Santa Isabel in Naga, and later the Assum...
(Aming Angkan’s ”All in the Family” series looks into familial ties that bind the famous and the infamous.) The Marcos regime was one marked by widspread violations of human rights and by plunderous fiscal policies which left the nation in...