FOR THE FERRER CLAN Nov. 30, 2014 - STORIES & PHOTOS OF THE MATEO G. FERRER-EUFROCINA/REMEDIOS NERY FERRER CLAN, PRIOR TO ITS DEC. 6 CHRISTMAS REUNION Ferrer-Nery Sibling # 6 - Carmen Ferrer Adevoso Being the 6th of 12 siblings, my mother Carmen (Mameng) was the middle child, with all the supposed implications of that position - an ability to deal well with all and to compromise being just some.... Mama started out also a classroom teacher, but not without some resistance. Being a tough tomboy type when she was growing up (for example, willing to confront and fight with the boys who were bullying her younger brothers, climbing up tall trees to get the fruit, etc) she originally asked her fathers permission to take up engineering (perhaps the influence of brother Juanito, with whom she was very close.) Lolo Mateo would have none of that, so she completed her teachers course at the Phil. Normal College and joined her sisters in the teacher and educator profession during the end days of World War II. At that time, the Ferrer brothers Jimmy, Janet, Simeon and Willie were active with the Hunters ROTC Guerillas which had its main headquarters in Paranaque. She often saw her future husband Col. Terry Adevoso in their house for secret meetings with her guerilla siblings, but dismissed him from her thoughts, even derisively naming him Mr. Tigas because of Terrys always straightly-erect PMA posture. But she had caught Terrys eye, and he ended up kidnapping her when she was walking on her way home from her Paranaque school, bringing her by jeep (with other Hunters ROTC guerillas) all the way to Malolos, Bulacan where a judge married them in civil rites. My father then brought her home, unharmed, where he faced the .45 cal. pistol of Juanito cocked and aimed at his face, but that is another story. (NB. Tito Janet did not fire his gun at papa, and they became steadfast friends and associates for the rest of their lives.) My parents married again on July 8, 1945 at St. Andrews Church in Paranaque, and began their story-book life together, which lasted until papas death on March 22, 1975, nearly 30 years. My mom quickly became accustomed to the role of a politician-and-government officials wife, even as she had her own career in teaching physical education and dance to the public schools in the Manila City system. She also became Administrative Manager of the Philippine Veterans Bank on its founding in 1963, and a member of the Board of the Phil. Commission on Culture, the predecessor of todays National Commission on Culture and the Arts. After papa passed away in 1975 from physical stress and strain after 2-1/2 years of martial law isolated detention, mama moved/migrated to the USA, unwilling to remain in a country being, as she put it, ravished by a greedy martial law government. She continued working in government in the USA (Cincinnati Public Library, the Environmental Protection Agency, among others) until 1996 when she was hit by a heart attack and the travails caused by a heart bypass. She lived in relative retirement until 2006 when she passed on to the Great Beyond. It was while she was in the USA that she relished all the visits of her siblings, nephews and nieces, attending all possible family occasions in other parts of the North American continent, including Canada, whenever she could. Among her siblings who I knew visited her were Corazon, Paz, and Lydia? Juanito and Simeon were frequent travelers and visitors to her home in Cincinnati, Ohio. My mom, like her sisters and brothers, were all nanay-and-tatay teachers of their children long before the term became familiar to Filipinos. We are forever grateful. I am forever grateful for the values and right paths my mom set me out on. You are forever ingrained in my being, Ma ! God Bless you profusely and keep you by His side forever !!
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:41:41 +0000
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