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                          Angelita Cabasa Balallo

Angelita "Angeling" Cabasa Balallo entered into peaceful rest on August 11, 2009 at the age of 73 after a year-long illness.  She was preceeded in death by parents Martin and Cristina; sister Eufrosina Cabonce; and brother Marcelino Cabasa.

She is survived by her loving husband of 51 years, Raymundo, 7 children, 18 grandchildren, one great grandchild, her sister Josefina Cabanas and many nephews, nieces and cousins.

She was a loving wife, devoted mother and loving grandmother, who dedicated her life to her family.  She was full of love and had an intimate capacity to love.  She had so much love that it spilled all around her.  She is an epitome of a dearly Beloved Nanang to all her siblings, grandchildren, relatives and others seeking help in many ways.  Everybody looked up to her with love and respect and enduring high regard.  She was a docile parishioner, always ready to extend a helping hand to monetary and material solicitations.  She was a church advocate.

To her family, she was incomparable - heaven sent, a very precious love, a priceless jewel, a super mom all rolled into one.  As a mother she is irreplaceable, as a wife she was dutiful and a model wife.  She raised a growing brood of seven. Early in life she inculcated values that would mold and guide them to become responsible adults/citizens.  Discipline and dignity of labor were imposed.  There was division of labor, they were trained early in entrepreneurship.  Sunday was a family day.  She cooked their favorite dishes.  Christmas was an occasion to look forward to.  Exchanging gifts and distribution of envelopes to everyone had been a family tradition.  When she went shopping, there was "pasalubong" for everyone.

As husband and wife, Mang Mundo and Mang Angeling were inseparable.  They have a very good spiritual background.  Recognizing their relatiionship with the Giver of Life, they are among frequent church-goers.  To the community, we can see that they are favored with God's love and bountiful blessings. They went to church together, traveled together, in joy, sickness and in pain they were together.

Mang Angeling will be dearly missed.  She is gone but her demise only ended her mortality.  Her spirit will go about fleeting among us.  The good deeds she had done will forever be etched in the hearts and minds of those whose lives she had touched.  She was a jewel not only to her family and clan but also to the neighborhood, to the community, to the church, and to all whom she came in contact with.

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