Missing my courageous travel partner By Vicky Perez My mother, who died this day two years ago, was my best travel partner. She was inquisitive, knowledgeable of history, courageous when it came to new experiences. She was the one who trekked into jungles to find wild growing papaya, hiked through valleys to find the elder […]
By Cristina DC Pastor The sudden death of WNBC News 4 journalist Katherine Creag came as a shock to the Filipino American community especially to two colleagues in the industry. “To know Kat was to adore her,” writes Hazel Sanchez, a reporter for CBS News, on Facebook. “Super hilarious, super smart, super mom,” Hazel remembers, […]
By Loida Nicolas Lewis Because I was tall for a Filipina and I love to dance during Filipino Gala nights, a good friend Nena Lozada Smith introduced me to Dancing Instructor Dodie Potenciano. He was a terrific dancer and I would hire him as my DI whenever I would attend dancing parties of the Filipino […]
By Cristina DC Pastor It happened in the home of a Filipino American nurse. A registered nurse, her husband, and son all tested positive for the Coronavirus. Belle Villafuerte, RN and son Drew survived, but Al, a respiratory therapist and patriarch of this Rockland County family, passed away in May. It was quite sudden, by […]
By Boyet Loverita November 14, 2004, it was a sad day for our family. It was the funeral of our beloved mother at St. Michael Parish Church in Laoang, Northern Samar. The funeral mass was officiated by my two clergy cousins, Fr. Poten Dulay and Fr. Jonathan Loverita. It’s a Filipino tradition that after the […]
Dr. Felicisima David-Quines, who was a geriatrician in Queens and a family medicine specialist in Albany, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer. She is survived by her husband, retired physician Dr. Emilio Quines, and their three children Emilio III, Alan, and Lisa. She was 75. “This is so sad,” wrote former Consul General in New York […]
By Joel David The sudden end to the long and productive life of actor-director Eddie Garcia was unnecessarily tragic, with corporate negligence compounding the foolhardiness of an artist too game to retire at an age when most other people would have completed two or more entire careers. The evaluation of netizens is on the mark […]
By Tricia J. Capistrano He arrived late with a male friend. They were both wearing leather jackets. My mom greeted them at the door. He kissed her on the cheek, complimented her new pixie cut, and then proceeded to kiss the other wives while putting his hand on the small of their backs. As the […]
By Abigail Salud Emerito Flores Salud was known in the Filipino-American community as a devoted and patriotic community leader, lawyer, and advocate. He worked tirelessly on various initiatives governed by different associations, including the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) and Filipino American Legal Defense & Education Fund (FALDEF). He loomed large, and he […]