Mayor Alfredo Locsin Montelibano

So one day, I was sitting there, looking around on the internet for more people to add to my family when I chanced upon the family of the late mayor of Bacolod City, my place of birth. He was attached through the Javellana-Lopez family. One of my siblings was actually named after his mother, Corazon Locsin. My sibling was born in the hospital which bears Corazon Locsin's name.

So, I searched for information about the late mayor and the first information I came across was a Dutch Wiki about Alfredo Locsin Montelibano. It translates as follows:

"Alfredo Montelibano Jr. was born on January 7, 1934. His parents were politician and sugar magnate Alfredo Montelibano Sr., The first mayor of the City of Bacolod and Defense Minister and Corazon Locsin."

Montelibano was more vice president of the Organization of Governors of the Philippines, president of the National Federation of Sugarcane Plant Holders and one of the founders of Sugar Industry Foundation Inc.

Montelibano was also governor of the province of Negros Occidental from January 2, 1968 until April 12, 1986. Then he was Mayor of Bacolod, one of the largest cities in Negros, from 1988 to 1995.

Montelibano died on 2 January 2008 of the effects of cardiac arrest at the Riverside Medical Center in Bacolod. Montelibano was diagnosed with cancer in April 2007. He was married to Jhay Montelibano (2nd wife) and had five children with her."

Here's my connection to the late mayor:

National Artist - Lucrecia R. Kasilag

It is amazing what you find when you try to build your family tree.

From the Philippine Government Website of National Commission for Culture and Arts, I found one of the National Artist is Lucrecia R. Kasilag. She was Dean of the Philippine Women's University College of Music and Fine Arts. She served as Artistic Director and as president of the Cultural Centre of the Philippines from 1969 until her retirement in 1986.

Details of her are as follows:

"National Artist for Music (1989)
(August 31, 1918 – August 16, 2008)

Lucrecia R. Kasilag, as educator, composer, performing artist, administrator and cultural entrepreneur of national and international caliber, had involved herself wholly in sharpening the Filipino audience’s appreciation of music. Kasilag’s pioneering task to discover the Filipino roots through ethnic music and fusing it with Western influences has led many Filipino composers to experiment with such an approach. She dared to incorporate indigenous Filipino instruments in orchestral productions, such as the prize-winning “Toccata for Percussions and Winds, Divertissement and Concertante,” and the scores of the Filiasiana, Misang Pilipino and De Profundis. “Tita King”, as she was fondly called, worked closely as music director with colleagues Lucresia Reyes-Urtula, Isabel Santos, Jose Lardizabal and Dr. Leticia P. de Guzman and made Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company one of the premier artistic and cultural groups in the country.

Her orchestral music include Love Songs, Legend of the Sarimanok, Ang Pamana, Philippine Scenes, Her Son, Jose, Sisa and chamber music like Awit ng mga Awit Psalms, Fantaisie on a 4-Note Theme, and East Meets Jazz Ethnika."

This is how we are connected in the family tree: