Librada Enos

Librada Enos was born January 27th, 1935 in Naga, Philippines to Gavino Manubag and Potenciana Cabigas. She was the youngest of six: Florencio Cabigas, Magdalena Moniz, Maxima Orillo, Julianna Cabigas, and Genara Sasan.

She married young and had eight children: Carlito, Gilbert Jr., Florencio, Conrado, Lilibeth, Albert, Cathleen, and Dinah. After having her children, she went back to school to become an elementary school teacher. While going to school, she took on many different jobs to help make ends meet, such as: a butcher’s shop selling pig and Lechon every Sunday, salted peanuts, coconut candy, and more!

Librada’s sister, Magdalena, petitioned for Librada, Albert, Cathleen, and Dinah to come to America on October 21st, 1982. While adjusting to life in America, Librada would look after an elderly lady, Mrs. Livy. She hopped around different jobs while also going to night school to further her education.

Librada’s favorite hobbies were: dancing, cooking, gardening, and singing. Her favorite songs to sing were “Crazy” by Patsy Cline and “Pasayawa Ko Dai” by Dulce and Emil Loseñada.

A mother of eight. Grandmother of 19. Great grandmother of 25.

There is no real way to summarize the incredible life of a woman who effortlessly could produce a smile even in the darkest of times. A woman who loved with conviction and showed her love and care through food. Sometimes words simply aren’t enough to describe a person. It’s the memories that each person holds in their hearts; the small everyday moments that we take for granted in the hustle and bustle. The quiet moments.

While we share a few of our treasured memories of our beloved Librada, we hope you will also share your moments with her in our Guest Book. Because the true measure of a life is in the memories left with those you held so dear.

Treasured Moments

“Cooking with her. It was the only time we had where it was just us, no one else; our own little world. She would cut everything and I would cook it. I would always cook Chicharron and Valencia for her.”

~Carlito

“Time spent cooking with her. We would reminisce and laugh together. Also, planning her 90th birthday together in the Philippines.”

~Dinah

“She always told me not to waste food; now look at me!”

~JD

“She always worked the elections in the Philippines and I would go with her. We would have to walk an hour up the mountain and spend the whole day there. We would make a torch out of coconut trees and walk down the mountain together. Just the two of us.”

~Lilabeth

“We bundled all of the cousins in the back of the pick up truck and went crabbing in San Francisco. It wasn’t safe, but we were all together and it was such a great time!”

~Jessell

“Driving from Colorado to Texas, grandma unclipped her bra, but still left it on under her shirt. When we went into a gas station, she never put it back on properly. When a man was leaving, he was just staring at grandma’s chest because it looked like her boobs were all the way up to her chin!”

~Cartha

“It’s not really one memory, it’s a place that lays in multiple spaces in time. It’s sitting in the back garden looking at all of the fruit trees and flowers. The warm sun peeking out from behind the trees and a cool breeze blowing through at the exact moment when it gets too warm. My mom and grandma are laughing from the kitchen; that big, loud, warm laugh that makes you also subconsciously smile along. Biting through the strawberry candy to the gooey center that I stole from one of her jars of candy near the garage door. It’s a mundane memory that I always go back to when looking for grandma, but it’s everything to me.”

~Kimberly