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November 19, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, November 22, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Felisa “Feliz” M. Maliksi
Feliz, also called Ching, died of a cerebral stroke on Friday, November 19, 2010 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains. She was 81, the faithful wife of Francisco R. Maliksi for fifty-eight years, and loving mother of Leo Rene Maliksi of Taipei, Taiwan and Anna Duffy and her husband Mark of Prospect Park.
Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Feliz was the sixth of seven children. She attended the V. Mapa High School in Manila and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Education from the Philippine Normal College.
She married Francisco (Frank) in 1952 and worked as a teacher at the T. Earnshaw Elementary School in Punta, Sta. Ana, Manila. She gave birth to Leo, the first of her two children, in 1954 and then to Anna Miel in 1958 and struggled to combine the demands of motherhood with her work.
She was very sociable, quick to make friends, and easily moved to compassion at the pain and suffering of others. She was a member of the Varsitarians, a student group that raised money for the poor. It was customary for middle-class families in the Philippines to hire household helpers who typically came from poor families outside Manila. Feliz urged all the helpers who had worked for her to return to school. Those helpers were either illiterate or had only finished elementary school. They all eventually felt a part of the family.
For her, the family was most important and she gave herself fully to caring for her husband and two children, plus the unmarried sister Julita, the eldest of her four siblings. Julita was initially very opposed to her marriage with Frank, but Feliz felt the loneliness in Julita’s heart borne out of her decision to remain single in order to raise her younger three sisters (among them Feliz) and brother Artemio. Their parents had died before the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and their eldest brother never came back after joining the resistance. The second eldest brother was captured by the Japanese and never returned.
The hardships endured by her family during the Second World War gave her an inner strength that enabled her to confront the new challenges from immigrating to the United States in 1971 when she took her two children to join Frank who had arrived the year before. The family moved to Wayne in 1974. Felisa worked at the G.A.F. Corporation, in Wayne as a technical librarian for 24 years before retiring in 1998.
In retirement, Feliz maintained a warmth and openness that made others feel she was genuinely interested in being a friend. She loved being with people and always had a smile for everyone. When she died, her daughter Anna looked out from the window of her 5th floor ICU room and said “A sunny day for a sunny person!”
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07474-0291 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Monday, November 22, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
November 19, 2010
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Monday, November 22, 2010 from 2-4, 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 from the funeral home then to Annunciation RC Church, 45 Urban Club Road, Wayne where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Felisa “Feliz” M. Maliksi
Feliz, also called Ching, died of a cerebral stroke on Friday, November 19, 2010 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains. She was 81, the faithful wife of Francisco R. Maliksi for fifty-eight years, and loving mother of Leo Rene Maliksi of Taipei, Taiwan and Anna Duffy and her husband Mark of Prospect Park.
Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Feliz was the sixth of seven children. She attended the V. Mapa High School in Manila and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Education from the Philippine Normal College.
She married Francisco (Frank) in 1952 and worked as a teacher at the T. Earnshaw Elementary School in Punta, Sta. Ana, Manila. She gave birth to Leo, the first of her two children, in 1954 and then to Anna Miel in 1958 and struggled to combine the demands of motherhood with her work.
She was very sociable, quick to make friends, and easily moved to compassion at the pain and suffering of others. She was a member of the Varsitarians, a student group that raised money for the poor. It was customary for middle-class families in the Philippines to hire household helpers who typically came from poor families outside Manila. Feliz urged all the helpers who had worked for her to return to school. Those helpers were either illiterate or had only finished elementary school. They all eventually felt a part of the family.
For her, the family was most important and she gave herself fully to caring for her husband and two children, plus the unmarried sister Julita, the eldest of her four siblings. Julita was initially very opposed to her marriage with Frank, but Feliz felt the loneliness in Julita’s heart borne out of her decision to remain single in order to raise her younger three sisters (among them Feliz) and brother Artemio. Their parents had died before the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and their eldest brother never came back after joining the resistance. The second eldest brother was captured by the Japanese and never returned.
The hardships endured by her family during the Second World War gave her an inner strength that enabled her to confront the new challenges from immigrating to the United States in 1971 when she took her two children to join Frank who had arrived the year before. The family moved to Wayne in 1974. Felisa worked at the G.A.F. Corporation, in Wayne as a technical librarian for 24 years before retiring in 1998.
In retirement, Feliz maintained a warmth and openness that made others feel she was genuinely interested in being a friend. She loved being with people and always had a smile for everyone. When she died, her daughter Anna looked out from the window of her 5th floor ICU room and said “A sunny day for a sunny person!”
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 291, Wayne, NJ 07474-0291 would be appreciated.
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