About Romy

Romy was born in a fishing village in  the town of Malabon. Province of Rizal, in the Philippines. He was raised by his grandfather until he was thirteen years old, joined his parents in the city of Cabanatuan, where he graduated from high school. He went back to Malabon to pursue his college education at the Mapua Institute of Technology. He supported his way through college by working full time with the University Architect of the University of the Philippines.

He graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Architecture in 1950, took the bar examination the same year, and took top honors for his school. He worked for various architectural firms in Manila and spent the last three years of his stay in the Philippines with the US Naval Base, Officer in Charge of Construction, in Subic Bay. He was, at the same time, moonlighting with a city planning firm, with offices in Honolulu, Hawaii, that had a contract with the US Naval Base.

In 1956, he accepted a job offer to go to Hawaii, met Rose, got married, and stayed there for the next three years. The call to move to the mainland was hard to resist, so in 1959, he moved to California. He settled in Woodland Hills for a while, and had a publications business of his own.

He has been in Santa Clarita since 1977, had been involved with the Fil-Am Association and eventually became president in 1990.

Romy retired in 1996 and spent his time fishing, playing golf, playing the guitar, camping, and socializing. Photography was his main hobby.  Our brother Romy left us and joined our Heavenly Father, the Redeemer on June 2014.