TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Old Family Photos - Concepcion Cuenco, Filomena Alesna Cuenco

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Old Family Photos - Concepcion Cuenco, Filomena Alesna Cuenco

Cebuano Kabilin in Instagram has been sending me old news clipping about my mother Concepcion Cuenco, and her Cuenco Family.

The first three articles are about Concepcion Cuenco winning the title of Miss Progress and Carnival Queen of Cebu 1931.

The subsequent articles are about the death and funeral rituals of my maternal grandmother Filomena Alesna Cuenco who got sick and died in Manila in June 8, 1939. The last post "Bodas de Plata" is about my granduncle Archbishop Jose Ma. Cuenco saying the Mass or Prayers for my grandmother.

More old news articles here:

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/10/old-news-clippings-mariano-manguerra.html

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/10/old-news-clippings-mariano-cuenco.html

Tags: #Cebuhistory #Cebusociety #Cebuculture #Cebuanohistory

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.