Loreta “Daday” Villarin Alacre is laid to her last resting place at the Caduha-an Public Cemetery in Barangay Caduha-an, Cadiz City on Sunday, Nov. 5.
BACOLOD CITY — Officials and resident of Cadiz City in Negros Occidental gave the 49-year-old caregiver who was killed by Hamas militants in Israel a hero’s send off on Sunday, Nov. 5.
Loreta “Daday” Villarin Alacre was buried at the Caduha-an Public Cemetery in Barangay Caduha-an, Cadiz City after a funeral mass at the St. Peregrine Parish Church.
Mayor Salvador Escalante and the Alacre family unveiled the marker for the Loreta V. Alacre Evacuation Center (LVAEC) in the compound of her alma mater, Cadiz Viejo National High School, Sunday morning, prior to her funeral in the afternoon.
Alacre of Sitio Camay-an, Barangay Cadiz Viejo,Cadiz City, was killed in a Hamas attack while she was on the way to her employer’s home on October 7. She had been an overseas Filipino worker in Taiwan and Israel for 19 years and the breadwinner of her family.
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“Daday will be with us forever,” the mayor said at the unveiling rites.
“LVAEC will always serve as a reminder to all Cadiznons that we have our own ‘heroine’ in the person of Daday,” he said.
“Daday was an icon of perseverance, persistency, hope and selflessness. She always thought of her family’s welfare – neither less nor more.”
Escalante said naming the newly built evacuation center after Alacre is the city government’s way of saying “thank You, Daday” for putting Cadiz in the world map as “home to a great heroine.”
“She’s our ‘Bagong Bayani’ thus she deserves this lasting marker within an edifice fit and worthy to be her remembrance to all of us”, Escalante, said as he thanked the city council for naming the evacuation center in Alacre’s honor.
Undersecretary Hans Leo Cacdac, Department of Migrant Workers officer-in-charge, who joined the funeral, said the government has provided assistance to Alacre’s family and will continue to assist with the schooling of her nephews and nieces whom she was sending to school.
The city government will discuss possible employment or livelihood for Alacre’s kin after the funeral, Escalante said.
Alacre had supported most of her seven siblings and financed the education of her nephews and nieces.
“We will do our share in helping Daday realize her dreams (even in death) for her beloved family,” Escalante said.