AMANDO URSOS WAS THE 11TH CHILD OF ITAY IYONG AND INAY JUANA
HE WAS ALSO KNOWN AS ITI AMANDO
LIKE SERGIO.. HE WAS ALSO A REPLICA OF THE BEAUTY OF HIS MOTHER IN A MAN'S BEAUTY
HE WAS PROUD AND CONFIDENT OF HIMSELF
HE WAS ON A MISSION BY HIS MOTHER TO GO TO BUTUAN CITY TO FIND WAYS HOW SHE COULD CLAIM HER PROPERTIES IN AGUSAN AS ONE OF THE HEIRS OF DUMAPLIN FAMILIES AS OWNERS OF THE VAST OF LANDS IN BUTUAN CITY AND TALACOGON AGUSAN
BUT THE WAR ERUPTED HE WAS ENLISTED IN THE ARMY AS PART OF THE AMERICAN CONTINGENT PROTECTING THE BAROBO AIRFIELDS TO CONTINUE THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN
THAT MAKES HIM THE MASTER OF THE FOREST OF NORTHERN MINDANAO...
TOGETHER WITH OTHER FILIPINO AND AMERICAN SOLDIERS, THEY ESTABLISHED THEIR HEADQUARTERS AT THE FOREST OF AGUSAN AS A MILITARY BASE TO ATTACK BUTUAN CITY AND DAVAO CITY BY THAT TIME WAS OCCUPIED BY THE JAPANESE ARMY.
FINDING THE AGUSAN RIVER AS THE NATURAL LINKS AND TRAVELLING BY SMALL BOATS TO COUNTER MILITARY ACTIVITES OF THE JAPANESE ARMY..
FROM THEIR HEADQUARTERS NEAR BUNAWAN.. IT WAS THERE WHERE HE FOUND ... JULIANA A TEACHER OF PRIMARY SCHOOL
A LOVE STORY BETWEEN THEM WAS TOLD THAT THE PARENTS OF JULIANA DO NOT LIKE AN ARMY TO BE HIS HUSBAND...
BUT JULIANA WAS SO IN LOVE WITH THIS URSOS ( UNSAY BA GYUD ANG BIRTUD SA URSOS !!! NGA GRABEE MAN PAGKA INLOVE ANG AKONG LOLA SA AKONG LOLO NGA URSOS ????)
IMAGINE !!!! AT THE MIDST OF THE WAR.... AGAINST THE FLOW OF THE WATER... LOVE IS TOO MUCH FOR JULIANA
SHE WENT AWAY FROM HER PARENTS JUST TO SEE AMANDO URSOS AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER
THE WAR WAS GOING ON... BUT SHE DECIDED TO SWIM ACROSS THE RIVER WHERE AMANDO URSOS IS WAITING FOR HER
TO MAKE THE STORY SHORT AMANDO BROUGHT JULIANA TO TAGALUAHAN , UBAY. BOHOL
IT WAS THERE WHERE LOLA JULIANA WORKED AS A TEACHER IN UBAY TOGETHER WITH LOLA ROSITA URSOS PENASO WHO WAS ALSO A TEACHER...
WHILE JULIANA AND ROSITA WERE WORKING THEIR CHILDREN ... ESTHER, DAUGHTER OF ROSITA AND CESAR CONCESA , DAUGHTER OF JULIANA AND AMANDO WERE UNDER THE CARE OF INAY JUANA... EATING ON THE SAME PLATE, SLEEPING ON THE SAME BED...
AMANDO..HAVE TO REPORT BACK TO HIS WORK HE WAS ASSIGNED IN LEYTE MILITARY BASE AND LATER...TO DAVAO CITY ARMY BASE
IT WAS IN DAVAO IN THE EARLY 1950S WHERE AMANDO URSOS, STILL IN THE ARMY BECAME THE GRAND CHAMPION IN THE SINGING CONTEST..KNOWN AS TAWAG NG TANGHALAN NG DAVAO CITY
HE DECIDED TO QUIT THE ARMY AND WORKED AS SALES REPRESENTATIVE OF ONE OF THE BUSINESS COMPANIES IN DAVAO CITY
IT WAS THERE..WHERE MARCIANO URSOS WENT TO DAVAO CITY AND FIND THE COMPANY OF AMANDO A PROMISING SEARCH OF THEIR FUTURE...
AMANDO LED MARCIANO TO FIND A LAND NEAR THE MILITARY BASE WHERE AMANDO WAS ASSIGNED DURING THE WAR.. IT WAS TAGLIKID, SAN FRANCISCO AGUSAN SUR...
THEY ASKED... BENJAMEN TO JOIN THEM WHO WAS WORKING AT THE SUGARLANDS AT CALATRAVA WHERE SERGIO URSOS AND NENA VILLAFLOR WAS ESTABLISHING A SUGARLAND BUSINESS..
BENJAMEN DECIDED TO GO JOIN MARCIANO AND AMANDO..BECAUSE THE LAND WILL BE PROCESSED INTO A TITLE BEARING THEIR NAMES...
DURING THE EARLY 1950S... THE LANDS OF TAGLIKID WERE OWNED AND DIVIDED BY THE THREE URSOSES... MARCIANO, BENJAMEN AND AMANDO
ALL OTHER URSOS CAME FROM BOHOL..LATER
LATE OF 1950S... AMANDO URSOS BECOME THE FIRST CHIEF OF POLICE OF SAN FRANCISCO AGUSAN SUR ...
IN 1970S... HE RETIRED HIS POSITION WAS TOOK OVER BY HIS SON IN LAW PACIANO LADERA ( MY FATHER)
HE BECAME A MUNICIPAL COUNSILOR IN 1972 AND HE RETIRED IN 1986...
HE CONCENTRATE THE REMAINING YEARS OF HIS LIFE AS MANAGER OF THE ST PETER LIFE PLAN ..
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BENJAMEN URSOS FAMILY
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Successful Examinees in the PHARMACIST LICENSURE EXAMINATION Held on January 25 & 26, 2011 Released on January 31, 2011 | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online