Comments on: What makes Cagayan de Oro tick? Or why Cagayanons (natives and non natives alike) love our city?

By: Pam Cepeda Tabique

Pam Cepeda Tabique — Sun, 13 May 2012 02:38:43 +0000

Great piece ma’am Wendy!… I myself is SO Cagay-anon…my paternal grandmother is Consuelo Puertas daughter of Adolfo Mortola Puertas and my paternal Grandfather is Dr. Lino Tabique used to head up the Bureau of Quarantine…My maternal grandfather is Charles Larsen Cepeda grandson of Alfred Larsen from Denmark…Majority of my family nowresides in the states but home is always CEE-DEE—OOH

By: abalorios de bisuteria

abalorios de bisuteria — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:44:21 +0000

abalorios de bisuteria…

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By: John Corrales

John Corrales — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:28:48 +0000

My father is August Velez Corrales and my mother is Dr. Consuelo Luminarias Corrales – can anyone help me trace my family tree back down to Judge Jose Corrales?

By: Tito Encarnacion

Tito Encarnacion — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:48:14 +0000

Hi. I’m one of the sons of the late Guillermo “Emong” M. Encarnacion of Lemery, Batangas and Crescencia R. Encarnacion of Sampaloc, Manila.

My father was invited by his uncle, Dr. Manuel Montenegro, to Cagayan de Oro in the early 50s. He instantly fell in love with the booming city of Northern Mindanao. So, after my parents got married, they decided to raise the family in CDO.

Cagayan de Oro… my hometown, too.

Tito Encarnacion

By: Gwendolyn r. Garcis

Gwendolyn r. Garcis — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:46:35 +0000

This is a pleasant surprise because i wrote that
Piece and i just saw that it reprinted here!
I have another one entitled “memories of the
Old hometown”. Both can be found in a photobook available at the vip hotel lobby. Two
Old columns by mynmother, atty. Pureza neri ramos are featured in said photobook as well.

By: Mikko

Mikko — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:10:54 +0000

Umm..does anybody have the Velez Clan Family Tree?

By: Grace Corrales

Grace Corrales — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:57:35 +0000

Hi Rene, first time to surf CDO site and came across your name and your mom’s! How are you guys doing? Please give my regards to your mom, Mela and your sister Christina.

By: rene malferrari

rene malferrari — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:08:46 +0000

hi, im one of the 6 sons of the late roberto “berting” gabor malferrari, my mom is mela x. velez.c u around

By: maria esperanza rosello-echem

maria esperanza rosello-echem — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:26:51 +0000

yes indeed. the list goes on. and one doesn’t have to look far to agree to what you are saying.

my mother is gloria marfori, one of the 11 children of Dr. Jose Marfori of Luzon who married Carmen Velez Neri of Cagayan de Oro. Of their 11 children, seven are married to wonderful people who are NOT from cagayan de Oro, namely my mother gloria rosello, Azucena elloso, carmen Dolar, Roberto Marfori, Eva Hipona, Adelina Picardal, and Carolina Pascual.
I think it has largely to do with the thin population of CDO then. I was told that in the 1930s and in the 1940s, there were just four really big families (Velez, Neri, Roa and Chaves), and one’s choice of a lifetime partner was sort of limited to these four big families. Pretty soon, everybody became “relatives” with each family knowing every other family down to the last apo, maybe even down to the last gene.

this pariente outlook made every visitor from another city more “mysterious” than the locals, rather interesting to be with and too good of a catch to let go.
so my mother married a cebuano, Jesus Rosello and lived in Cebu, and I married a Kagay-anon, Luis Gabor Echem.

By: camille abonitalla

camille abonitalla — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:36:13 +0000

hi im camille r. abonitalla my father name is marlon abonitalla but were in cebu and the rest of my family are in cagayan de oro