August 21-22, 2010

Taken at Malinao Church

Hello Fellow Ilio Species,

Congratulations to the success of the Hilarion Ilio Grand Reunion 2010 – Bridging Generations (Malinao, Aklan). To all committees and Clan members involved with the execution, hats off to all of you. I hope that I also made an impact on the Team Building/Parlor Games, “bridging all generations together”. Farewell and Godspeed to all of the “Ilio” species. Let’s do it again in 2013… stronger and better!

If you have not done so, please check out some links below.  This will keep you up-to-date with the HILARION ILIO families.  Thank you…

HILARION ILIO WEBSITE:
http://hilarion2010.ilio.ph/

ILIO YAHOO GROUPS:
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ILIO Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=197739358139

VIDEO SAMPLE – Day 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr014UBrxVE

Errol Ilio-Icawalo Rampola

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Malinao, ca 1983-84

The Elios and Jubilans of Antique

This is really intriguing .

I remember Tatay talking about the Elios of Antique and how close our roots are connected with them.  I don’t remember how close, but I know that he and Mrs. Flores (one of the his Elio contacts from Antique) used to talk about the connection.  We are supposedly that close that George Flores, the son of Mrs. Flores, used to stay in our house in UP.  (If they weren’t relatives, why would he stay in our house?)  Unfortunately, we lost contact with them and I learned a few years ago that George (and his twin brother, Julius) passed away sometime ago.

Back in 1995 or so, I bumped into a Dr. Dong Elio at the American Urological Association (AUA) meeting in San Francisco.  How and why we bumped into each other in the halls of the Moscone Center, I have no clue. You have to remember, there were over 30,000 people at the AUA convention – and somehow – in a fleeting moment, I was able to glance at his name tag while a group of Filipino doctors were heading form one seminar room to another, while I was also doing the same thing in the opposite direction.

So I stopped them briefly, introduced myself to the group as a kababayan and said that I noticed that his and my name are similar but spelled differently.  I also remarked that we may actually be relatives, that is, if he was from Antique.  Well, it turned out that he was.  We actually posed for a picture … I have to dig it up somewhere and post here another time – and promised to contact each other … but you know how things go.

Fast forward to today, January 9. 2010.  I was chatting on Facebook with my friend – Dr. Boyce Jubilan – who was my colleague at UP and now is based in Pennsylvania.  Somehow, our chat drifted towards the family name Ilio and he mentioned that they are relatives with the Elios … and that George and Julius were not only his classmates/barkada in high school in Antique and part of their college life together in Iloilo but also, they were his cousins!  That in fact they had an Elio-Jubilan reunion reently … and he has a picture of Dr. Dong Elio in his photo album.

OMG.

I just finished chatting with him and couldn’t wait to tell all of you about this …

So, here you are, the Elios and Jubilans of Antique, our relatives from across the cordillera of Panay. Dr. Elio is at the back, in plaid, while Boyce is seated in front.

Please, if anyone can piece the Elio-Ilio connection together … leave a comment.

Photo courtesy of Dr. Boyce Jubilan.

Taken at Francis and Inday Garcia-Liew’s apartment on Rue du loerqc or something like that.

L-R:  Toto (Isot’s son), Kenneth and Kenneth (Kenneth on Kenneth’s lap), Angela (at the back), Isot and John.

For some reason, I bumped into a long-looked for cousin on Facebook who I found in somebody else’s list of friends.  She is Belyn Domingo Wilson, daughter of Nang Belen Ilio Domingo, who is a cousin of our side of the Ilio family.  The sisters Belen and Reginia (I guess of daughters of Julia Ilio?) have been based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California since the 1950s.

Belyn sent me this picture above through Facebook and wrote:

“Bottom to Top: CJ Ilio, Christy Ilio, children of Cris Ilio, Marcus Frederick (Ilio-Domingo) Wilson, grandson of Nay Belen (Ilio) & Tay Fred Domingo, Darren Andre (Ilio-Gomez) Aliga, grandson of Nay Rening (Ilio) Gomez.
These are the new generation of Malinao Aklanons in California.”

It is sooo great to keep in touch with long-looked for cousins, who are now connected!

Father Philip (of tropa ni Rebecca) and Domingo ‘Popoy’ (of tropa ni Elvira) in Dubai.

Fr, Philip Ilio Bonifacio visited us here in Chicago yesterday.

I just found these … Tatay and Nay Conchit … don’t know when this was taken but I found these buried under tons of papers in one of my boxes.  I am such a pack rat.