Our Family Tree

It started with a smile. .. a sweet smile, a lovely smile. That is when my existence here on earth started. It happened that the "barkada" of my my mother is also a "barkada" of my father. They met in a friendly gathering where all the smiling thing happened. They had a nice conversation and talked about each other's life. My father asked for my mother's hand and they were married in February 18, 1898. Their love for each other gave us, me and my sisters, the chance to live.

Before my parents existed, of course, my grandparents shouted for their love to each other. In my father's side, my grandparents who are Calixto C. Ramirez and Perpetua Arellano, before having been married, met thru my grandfather's smaller brother. My grandma is a classmate of my grandpa's smaller brother and they were loved at first sight. Having known each other for few years, they fell in love with each other. The same thing, in my mother's side, my grandparents who are Constantino Ramirez and Concepcion Gituan Escalada, were childhood sweetheart. They were classmates in elementary in Naic Elementary School and had seen each other for the second time when they were about 25 years old and they fell in love with each other.

I have also my great grandparents who are Donato Ramirez, Maria Casao Ramirez, Crispin Arellano( Founder of the Arellano University), Emeteria de Castro Arellano, who are those in my father's side. In my mother's side, they are Joselito Ilog, Florida Ramirez, Mariano Escalada, and Martina Gituan. The same thing, they gave that love that each other need and that is when my grandparents started to live.