December 31, 1918 - May 27, 2006

He finished primary school at Malolos Central in 1936 as a Section A student in the famed Bulacan High School. After he graduated high school, he wanted desperately to get a job and through his father's close friend, Maj. Mariano Castaneda, he was able to get a job by joining the Philippine Constabulary. He was assigned to the General Service Troops Batallion, and in 1937 was sent to Lanao Provinces to fight the Moro (Moslem uprising). An instance during such operations in the jungle, a Moro rebel emerged from a tunnel with a famed razor sharp "kampilan" ready to slash him, but another PC trooper saw the danger coming and quickly shot the rebel dead. After their victorious military assignment in Mindanao, they returned to their base and through their PC General Service, the troop batallion operation undertook throughout the country that eventually earned the PC its motto, "always outnumbered but never outfought."

The battle scenes moved to Bataan in 1942. Japanese planes and artilleries rained shells on Filipino-American troops taking covered under thickly forested areas in Mt. Samat. It was at this feroucisous battle that he received a deep shrapnel wound in the forehead. Though weak and bloodied, he carried on his shoulder one of his wounded compatriots to safely escape the Japanese spies (the hooded makapilit).

In 1943, he joined the guerilla chieftain named Arsenal who fought with him in Bataan in the same platoon 31st Infantry Division of the Philippines Army. They fought and raided Japanese troops in Daraga, Albay between December 30, 1943 and January 3, 1944. The battle moved to Atlag, on one side genuines (USAFFE guerillas), and on the Bagna side the HUKS irregulars from Pampanga and Bulacan, and the coming Japanese forces. In between those years of peace, heroic exploits he met his soon-to-be wife Loleng , a nursing attendant while making his inquiries at Provincial hospital for short hospitalization and treatment. This making the story short, Mr. Cupid entered their beautiful lives leading into their marriage on August 27, 1942. Their love and devotion to teach other produced a happy marriage that bore six boys, Rene, Jaime (both deceased), Manolo, Freddie, and Raul now living in the US with their families, Rebecca in Australia with her family, and Albert with his wife, Sol, living in the Malolos familiy home.

His wife of 63 years passed away last year August 3, 2005, and on her grave he had his grave etched on the marker under his wife's name to prove his love and devotion to the end.