Missing you everyday...

Happy anniversary in heaven Tita Lord. Been two years of missing you.

Once a year lang kami mag kita ng Tita Lourd pero sulit lagi, inde kami nawawalan ng usapan, bonding namin lagi steam oyster pareho kasi namin favorite with toyo and kalamansi. Pag na malengke sya inde mawawala yon pag umuuwi ako, mamissed ko lahat ng luto mo tita and yong mga payo mo sa akin at lagi tayo nag iiyakan pag pag paalis na ako. Lagi mo sinasabi hirap aalis ka na naman kelan tayo ulit mag kikita, mag iingat ka don lagi. Last message mo sa akin nung easter, mahal na mahal ka namin tita and kalungkot last na pala natin pag kikita nung umuwi ako two years ago. I know your in peace now and kasama mo na tito Bert and nanay at dad, kumusta mo na lang kami sa lahat and always look after us.

I will truly missed you until we meet again. ❤️❤️❤️

Hi lola lourd! March 30 po nung huli tayo nagka usap, tinanong mo po if ano work ko and nagkwento po ako sainyo and sinabi ko na miss na miss ka na po namin pati yung the best menudo mo. Lola lourd thank you sa pag alaga saamin nung bata pa, pag saway saamin kapag makukulit kami. Hinding hindi ka po namin makakalimutan lola lourd mahal na mahal ka po namin. Patuloy niyo po kami gabayan mula sa itaas lola lourd. Maraming salamat po sa lahat. We love you lola!!

I will always remember Lola Lourd as a fun and loving person. In my younger years, whenever we get together on special occasions and family reunions (Ramos-Aguila clan), I always enjoyed listening to our elders' conversations and Lola Lourd’s stories with such candor and yet fun and interesting. I’ll never forget her facial expression (like saying, here we go again) when Lolo Bert cracks jokes which to me are really funny, not that Im biased :-). I like seeing them together and how she looked after Lolo Bert. Fast forward to present time, little did I know that for something that I used to know about her past condition would later make an impact on my life…that’s when I realized that we were both breast cancer survivors. She was the first person that I know in the family who was a living example of surviving the big C and the best person that I can confer with. That is why I feel blessed that I was able to talk to her just last month and we exchanged pleasantries, how she dealt with her past illness, realities of ageing, covid life, expressions of gratitude and faith. I told her that the greatest gift that Lolos and Lolas can offer to their children and apos are prayers, nothing else, so I said she’s done an excellent job and I personally thanked her for that. Lola Lourd touched my life with her words of comfort and wisdom and the kind of person she is to me and to the family. Lola Lourd is a woman of strength, a woman of faith and a true testament of a person who was blessed to live long enough to inspire and touch someone’s life like me. We love you dearly Lola Lourd. I will miss your messenger posts just like dad+, your family updates especially your apos and inspirational quotes. You will be forever missed, however we take comfort knowing that you are in a better place now in God’s hands.

To me Tita Lord is my most loving and coolest Tita, there’s always smile in her face. Her kindness and hugs whenever we have get together will balways be remembered. She looks forward to talk to us specially this pandemic. She jibes to everyone from pamangkins to apo sa tuhod. My children will always remember her menudo because they always compare my menudo to hers. How I wish that I can get her recipe. .. Reunions will never be the same without her menudo but most specially her loving way of showing to us that she’s happy to see us again. I’m happy that you did not suffer but sad that we will miss you. Anyway please send my hugs and kisses to Mommy and Daddy and to the whole clan. I’m sure they will be glad to welcome you. We love you Tita Lord.

Tita lord its very nice woman when I’m young me and pareng Dani together in High school day tita lord always saying ingat kyo dalawa I’m never forgot you tita lord

Being very close to Tita Lord, I would say I have so many fond memories of her, all of which are happy memories, but one eventuality that really made an impact both to my heart and mind was the one that took place when her daughter Arlene had their house blessing at Provident Village. Tita Lord didn’t have the slightest idea then that I was already hitting rock-bottom having to receive my one peso monthly salary due to insurmountable loans as I needed to send my three children to school. I really was very eager to see Tita Lord that day since I haven’t seen her for quite some time due to busy work schedule and I was really feeling very low. Out of the blue, Tita Lord opened up the conversation asking me if I was interested in being her official driver at her office considering that her driver lived far and she had to give him food and money for his fare, while me and Tita Lord were practically neighbors as we lived just across the street and our offices are only six minutes walk away from each other’s location. I readily agreed because I knew that I would be spared from paying for my daily transportation going to and from the office since I will be driving the official car issued to Tita Lord, and, the greatest bonus, was, I also didn’t have to worry about my lunch anymore since Tita Lord would always put some food inside my bag. For three consecutive years, and until she retired from her work, I drove Tita Lord to and from her office, she gave me lunch on a daily basis, until my salary finally returned to its normal amount. Tita Lord’s kindness and generosity saved me from my predicament. No one would ever expect some thing like this to happen. Tita Lord became my savior without her knowing it. Ta Lord, maraming maraming salamat po sa lahat ng kabutihan niyo sa akin at sa pamilya ko. Paalam po, hindi po namin kayo makakakalimutan.

Nanay is a very sweet, loving Mother, so much loved by us and those whose lives she has touched. The outpouring of sympathies and love has been immense so far, a proof of how she lived her life. She is prayerful and would frequently remind us to pray and have faith in God. She starts and ends the day with prayers, usually the rosary, and by reading the Bible. Even her favorite TV channel is EWTN, where she would hear mass every night.

She loves the family so much, and that's not just me, Kuya, Marlon, and her grandchildren, Arlo, Gio, and Nala. Family to her includes the whole clan of Fernandez and Aguila. Even LRA, where she spent her entire work life, is a family to her. I know for a fact that she is very joyful whenever she receives a message or a call, more so, a visit, from any of us. She values it deeply, especially when the pandemic started. She felt lonely when we didnt allow her to go out, for fear of infection. We tried to compensate through frequent video calls, but I know that she longed for the hugs, kisses, and the mano/blessings that she would normally give us all.

I know she was quite unhappy that I had to move abroad with her apos. But, she fully supported that difficult decision just the same, knowing that it is for the future of her grandchildren whom she loved so dearly. We were blessed that she and Daddy were able to visit us a number of times in Malaysia, then Singapore, until the pandemic. We were still looking forward to the time when she can come and visit us again, to hug and kiss Nala and Gio, when the pandemic is over.

But then, I am comforted that she is now in a much better place, incomparable to any place on Earth, with our Father God, Daddy, Nanay Taba (her Mom), Tatay Tandoy (her Dad), all her Ates, Kuyas, and her youngest brother, Tito Nebur, and other dearly departed, waiting for her up there to start a new life where there is no pain and suffering.

We love you so much and you will be dearly missed. Daddy said to me when I was a kid, when gratitude is deep, it cannot be expressed in words. I knew what it meant, but this moment has taught me the depth of that saying. Til we meet again, Nanay. Pls hug and kiss Daddy for me. I love you both.

Tita Lord will leave a long and lasting memory to all of us. She was kind-hearted, loving, caring and I would say the sweetest of our Titas. She was the youngest and she related to most of us, even with her extended grandchildren. I have many fond memories of Tita Lord, one was her cooking, although Tita Lyd was probably the best cook among the sisters, well maybe tied to our mommy! It is a rare to visit Tita Lord and not be served with her homecooked food. She will always have something to offer. She seems to know all our favorite food, even Cherry's fondness for her menudo.

She will be missed so much. But we console ourselves that she's now in heaven, with Tito Bert and the rest of our parents and relatives. While painful for all of us, I'd like to think that her sudden passing is her way of not burdening Angel, Arlene and the rest of us to see her suffer a prolonged sickness. We surely did not want that.

Paalam Tita Lord and salamat ng marami for staying with us, or putting up with us this long. We will never forget. We love you.

I became close with Tita Lourd when I was about 16. Back then I treasured her words of wisdom and caring ways. Even after years and decades passed she would always reach out and ask how I was doing. I would get messages letting me know she was thinking of me. When I visit Marikina I would stop by and say hello to her. Sadly the last time I was home Feb 2020, we couldn’t see each other. my schedule was tight and the beginning of the pandemic so I needed to leave before I get caught in the lockdown. I will miss you so much Tita. I love you.