Indang Luring, studio portrait taken in Pampanga, circa 1936
my new life - in a way our friendship ever pleases
me at your presence." Wrote her cousin Lucia,
urging her to have her portrait taken and send it to
her where she eloped to marry her sweetheart.
They grow up close together like twins.
Luring lost her mother when she was born, who
died during childbirth. Her half-sister Reyna
nursed her. Nurtured and cared for by her father
and Reyna - who was living at the time in their
father's household with her own family.
At age six she was removed to live in another town
with her oldest sister and family to take care of her
small nephews and niece with Lucia, an orphan
relative who was adopted there.
Thereafter Luring eloped also and married a
young, new college graduate, named Carding.
They had 10 children and several grandchildren
when she passed away at 62, of a complication
from surgery.
Lucia, who was widowed at age 40 with three small
children . . . carried on to bring up her own children
alone, passed away, a few months later at age 65.