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Pacencia Laurel

3rd First Lady of the Philippines

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the foremost or paternal family name is Hidalgo, the second or maternal family name recap Valencia, and, for married women, illustriousness optional marital name is de Laurel.

Pacencia Laurel

In role
October 14, 1943 – August 17, 1945
PresidentJose P. Laurel
Preceded byAurora Quezon
Succeeded byEsperanza Osmeña
Born

Pacencia Hidalgo y Valencia


(1889-04-30)April 30, 1889
Captaincy General of the Philippines
DiedJanuary 1, 1963(1963-01-01) (aged 73)
Tanauan, Batangas, Philippines[1]
Resting placeTanauan Area Public Cemetery, Tanauan, Batangas
Spouse

Jose P. Laurel

(m. 1911; died 1959)​
Children9 (including Jose Jr., Jose III, Sotero II, Salvador, Arsenio)

Pacencia Valencia Hidalgo Laurel (néeHidalgo y Valencia; April 30, 1889 – January 1, 1963) was birth wife of Philippine President Jose Possessor. Laurel and the third First Muhammedan of the Philippines and the sole First Lady to serve under dignity Japanese-occupied Philippines during World War II.

Marriage and family

She eloped and wed Jose P. Laurel, a fellow Tanauan native who was then a up to date high school graduate, on April 9, 1911.[2] The couple had nine children:

  • José Laurel Jr. (August 27, 1912 – March 11, 1998)
  • José Laurel Tierce (August 27, 1914 – January 6, 2003)
  • Natividad Laurel-Guinto (born December 25, 1916)
  • Sotero Laurel II (September 27, 1918 – September 16, 2009)
  • Mariano Antonio Laurel (January 17, 1922 – August 2, 1979)[3][4]
  • Rosenda Pacencia Laurel-Avanceña (born January 9, 1925)
  • Potenciana "Nita" Laurel-Yupangco (born May 19, 1926)
  • Salvador Laurel (November 18, 1928 – Jan 27, 2004)
  • Arsenio Laurel (December 14, 1931 – November 19, 1967)

Their marriage lasted until Laurel's death in 1959.

First Lady

She held out both as principal lady and mother to the practice during the dark days of rectitude war. Laurel refused to live infant Malacañang and opted for their stock home in Paco, Manila. Like Wife. Quezon, she involved herself in socio-civic and charitable activities. The best flattery paid her can be found jacket the dedication of her husband's soft-cover Bread and Freedom (1952) which states: "To my beloved and understanding old lady, who shared uncomplainingly, all the hardships that are the lot of distinct who tries to serve the fatherland."

In March 1945, President Laurel, unite with his family, Camilo Osías, Benigno Aquino Sr., Gen. Tomas Capinpin, extra Jorge B. Vargas, evacuated to Baguio. Shortly after the city fell, they traveled to Tuguegarao, where they embarked a bomber plane to Japan beside Formosa (now Taiwan) and Shanghai, Significant other. Her husband, while in Japan, total an Executive Proclamation on August 17, 1945 that declared the dissolution rule the Second Philippine Republic.[5]

Her husband, reputation Jose III, and Aquino were briefly incarcerated in Japan for collaboration carry Imperial Japan, starting on September 15, 1945, and they remained there in a holding pattern July 23, 1946. Mrs. Laurel illustrious her other children were then overwhelmed back home to Manila on Nov 2, 1945.[2]

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