Once you got past the main pedestrian gate of the Lolarga-Valdellon-Romero family’s former summer house (it was sold a few years ago), you had to pass through a smaller and lower gate, unlocked all of the time. The letters “E” and “L” were there to stand for our late lolo, Enrique A. Lolarga, founder of the National Radio School and Institute of Technology. Two of his three sons carried the same initials: Enrique Jr., my dad, and Ernesto or Uncle Esting.
Our uncle married educator Erlinda Garcia who happens to share the same first letter for her given name. So all their children’s names began with the letter “E”: Eileen, Emelinda, Eloise, Emmanuel, Eleanor and Ernesto Jr.
My dad and mom were no different until they got to their sixth child who they thought would be their last. So she was baptized Genevieve (the “G” after my mother’s Gliceria). As for the rest of us, we were a series of “E’s”: Elizabeth, Evelyn, Enrique III, Edgar, Ellen and the two babies that came after Genevieve, Eric and Eugenia.
The more recent photo above is of Enrique III (more known as Junic) and his son Christian. The black and white photo shows Evelyn in her preteens, summer of '68 by her recollection, posing by her initials, still at the Brookside house. Her only child is named Carlo. The “E” tradition stopped with us.
Our uncle married educator Erlinda Garcia who happens to share the same first letter for her given name. So all their children’s names began with the letter “E”: Eileen, Emelinda, Eloise, Emmanuel, Eleanor and Ernesto Jr.
My dad and mom were no different until they got to their sixth child who they thought would be their last. So she was baptized Genevieve (the “G” after my mother’s Gliceria). As for the rest of us, we were a series of “E’s”: Elizabeth, Evelyn, Enrique III, Edgar, Ellen and the two babies that came after Genevieve, Eric and Eugenia.
The more recent photo above is of Enrique III (more known as Junic) and his son Christian. The black and white photo shows Evelyn in her preteens, summer of '68 by her recollection, posing by her initials, still at the Brookside house. Her only child is named Carlo. The “E” tradition stopped with us.
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