General Santos City in Yasni Exposé of Cecille Villacorta

Cecille Villacorta is the granddaughter of highly-decorated, Philiipine national hero General Paulino Santos, which cosmopolitan and renowned travel destination, General Santos City, in the Philippines is named after.  General Santos City, or Gen-San, is also home of famous boxing champion, Manny Pacquiao.  Her maternal grandmother was Elisa Angeles, who was a beloved homemaker.  Her paternal grandfather, Dr. Jose Villacorta, was the highly accomplished first Filipino malariologist.  Her paternal grandmother was the beloved, Matea De Sequera, touted as a "woman ahead of her times".  A highly successful businesswoman, she regularly travelled to Europe with her brood of six daughters and only son, Rolando Sr.  She sent her youngest daughter for high-school to the US, which in the 1930's was unheard of in Philippine society.  That daughter, the only living sibling of her father, is a successful real estate owner-developer in Southern California.  Her father was Rolando Sr., a Colonel in the Philppine military reserve.  Her mother was Lourdes Santos Villacorta, who before entering public service, was in production for Sampaguita Pictures, a film production company in the Philippines owned by her cousin Jose Perez, "Tito Pinggot" (deceased) and Azucena Vera-Peza, the much respected and loved "Tita Nene". Her family on both sides, were educators, Rosa Santos Munda, her deceased aunt, was dean of Philippine Women's College in Davao, a province in southern Philippines.  Another aunt, Belinda De Sequera Villacorta, also deceased, was a teacher in the American School in Makati, Philippines. Cecille Villacorta, a devout Roman Catholic, has made it her personal mission to spread the devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows and to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.