Dear Prof. Jorge,
Please consider this as my revised/final Genogram submission.
Thank you and happy new year!
Regis Cebu Leadership
Leader Izumi G. Yamashita
Genogram
MOTHER'S SIDE
A. GREAT GRANDPARENTS – GRANDFATHER'S SIDE
Great Grandfather: Esteban Galdo (†)
- My great grandfather from my grandfather's side is Esteban Galdo. He's a Barcelona, Sorsogon Bicol native born on August 3, 1916.
Papay, as we call him, hails from a family of farmers. Because of poverty, his parents were not able to afford to send him to school thus only reaching grade school without even finishing it.
At a very young age of 15, he braved going to Manila to look for a job in order to help his family. He worked as a projectionist or movie house operator in Frisco, Quezon City.
There he met his wife, Consolacion Ofalsa, who was then working as the movie house cashier. He was 24.
Papay was a legendary womanizer in our clan. In our family gatherings, everyone would often talk and laugh about Papay's misadventures with his mistresses and how Mamay would always catch and beat both Papay and his mistresses to death (of course, figuratively speaking).
Papay died on July 19, 1994 from prostate cancer. He was 78.
Great Grandmother: Consolacion Ofalsa (†)
- Mamay is my great grandmother from my grandfather's side. She was born on September 23, 1918. Just like my Papay, she also hails from a family of farmers from the province of Sorsogon, Bicol.
Perhaps it's true that most people attract people of their same kind. Mamay is also just an elementary graduate. She moved to Manila when she was just 17 to look for a job to help her family.
When she was just 22, she met and married Papay. It took a while before they bore a child. Four years later, Mamay got pregnant with my grandfather. However, it was an ectopic pregnancy thus preventing them from having more children. Since my grandfather was born, Mamay decided to stay home fulltime to take care of him.
Mamay has an angelic face, but don't be deceived. She's one brave woman – like a tiger, which is why Papay couldn't get away with his womanizing. (haha)
She died on October 2, 2010 at the age of 92 from pneumonia.
