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Cacas Family, circa 1900s-1987 and undated

Sub-Series — Box: 3

Found in: Special Collections and University Archives / The Rita M. Cacas Filipino American Community Archives collection / D.C. - Area Filipino American Families

Scope and Contents Maximino Cacho Cacas (1907-1944) arrived in the United States in 1926 and received a degree from the University of California, Berkeley in accounting. He moved to Washington, D.C., in the late 1930s, but died while fighting in World War II. Maximino's brother Clemente Cacas (1910-1995) followed his brother to California in 1929 and later moved east, eventually settling in Washington, D.C., after briefly staying in Chicago in 1933. After serving at a military hospital in California during...

Dates: circa 1900s-1987 and undated

Calabia Family, circa 1920s-2009 and undated

Sub-Series — Box: 3

Found in: Special Collections and University Archives / The Rita M. Cacas Filipino American Community Archives collection / D.C. - Area Filipino American Families

Scope and Contents Florentine Calabia (1898-1980) left the Philippines at age 16 to join the U.S. Navy during World War I and moved to Washington, D.C. in the 1930s. He returned to the Philippines to marry Nestora Monfero, a schoolteacher, and returned to the U.S. Nestora was an auditor at the General Accounting Office for more than 30 years and served as the first president of the Filipino Women's Club of Washington, D.C., which formed in 1943. Florentine and Nestora had two sons, Florentine (Tino) and...

Dates: circa 1920s-2009 and undated

Buena Family, circa 1940s-2008 and undated

Sub-Series — Box: 3

Found in: Special Collections and University Archives / The Rita M. Cacas Filipino American Community Archives collection / D.C. - Area Filipino American Families

Scope and Contents Luis Buena (1906-1964) joined the U.S. Navy in the 1930s and served in World War II. He married Teresa Mendez in 1948 and they first lived near Hadley Hospital in southeast Washington, D.C. before moving to Glassmanor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, with their three daughters, Geraldine, Antoinette (Mary) and Loretta. Teresa was a nursing director for geriatric patients at the D.C. Village Hospital in southeast Washington, D.C. (1).This subseries consists of nursing class photos from the...

Dates: circa 1940s-2008 and undated