Sunday, September 6, 2026

Poster Chart of My Paternal Ancestral Roots, The Javellana-Lopez Clan of Jaro, Iloilo-Part 1 of 2

My Father, Dr. David Jamili K(C)atague, DDS

EST. 1803 • JARO • ILOILO

GENEALOGIA • HERENCIA • MEMORIA

Descendants of Don Manuel Javellana
& Doña Gertrudis Lopez
— The Marcelina Branch —

Casa Mariquit • Nelly Garden • Jaro Cathedral — Jaro, Iloilo Heritage

11 CHILDREN • CAPITAN TINONG LINE • MARCELINA CATAGUE LINE • KIM BYONG → JAVELLANA (CLAVERIA DECREE 1849)

1803

Casa Mariquit

OLDEST HERITAGE HOUSE IN ILOILO

Built by banker Ramon Javellana. Residence & bank — money kept under hardwood floors. Home of Maria Salvacion “Mariquit” Javellana who married Fernando Hofileña Lopez Sr. (3-term VP of Philippines, ABS-CBN Chairman). Now museum.

JAVELLANA-LOPEZJARO MUSEUM

1874 • OUR LADY OF CANDLES

Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral

FAMOUS FOR NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA CANDELARIA • ALL-MALE SAINTS ON COLUMNS

National Shrine, seat of Archdiocese of Jaro. Final resting place of Cristino Javellana & son Cirilo — 4th column left aisle, 3rd Station of the Cross. Transferred Feb 4, 1918.

LAPIDA • 1918JARO, ILOILO I.F.

1928 • 4 HECTARES

NATIONAL HISTORICAL LANDMARK 2004

Nelly Garden Mansion

QUEEN OF HERITAGE HOUSES • BEAUX-ARTS

Built by Don Vicente Lopez (son of Eugenio Lopez y Jalandoni & Marcela Villanueva) + Doña Elena Hofileña. Named for eldest daughter Nelly Lopez y Hofileña. Shows Lopez-Hofileña-Javellana knotting via Mariquit.

LOPEZ-HOFILEÑABEAUX-ARTS

LEVEL I • ROOT • 1815-1819

Don Manuel Javellana

b. 1815 • Kim Byong → Javellana 1849

Original surname Kim Byong,
changed via Claveria Decree

Doña Gertrudis Lopez

b. 1819

Lopez clan of Jaro

— 11 CHILDREN —

Escolastica Javellana

+ Geronimo Jiz de Ortega

Petra Javellana

+ Sixto Golez

Quintina Javellana

+ Vicente Gonora

b.1840

Narcisa Javellana

+ Simon Grecia

b.1842

Inocencia Javellana

+ Juancho Jamora

b.1849

Mariano Javellana

+ Crispina Gamboa

b.1851

Cristeta Javellana

Carmen Javellana

+ Miguel Jayme y Lopez

Benita Javellana

+ Pablo Lopez

Cristino Javellana

+ Capitan Tinong

6th child • branch

Marcelina Javellana

+ Victoriano Catague

youngest • YOUR LINE

LEVEL II • TWO HIGHLIGHTED BRANCHES

Cristino Javellana

CAPITAN TINONG • GOBERNADORCILLO

BRICK FACTORY OWNER

Gobernadorcillo of Jaro, prominent brick manufacturer. Interred in Jaro Cathedral 4th column, left aisle near 3rd Via Crucis. Transferred Feb 4, 1918.

1ST MARRIAGE

Baldomera Ledesma

5 children

2ND MARRIAGE

Hermenigilda Hinolan

6 children

YOUR GREAT-GRANDPARENTS • MARCELINA BRANCH

Marcelina Javellana + Victoriano Catague

YOUNGEST OF 11 • 7 CHILDREN • CATAGUE LINE

The youngest child continues the lineage that leads to the Katague spelling. Marriage ties Lopez-Hofileña-Javellana through Casa Mariquit & Nelly Garden.

Julio RobertoRupertoEsperanzaJulietaRosarioEncarnacionManuel

LEVEL III • CRISTINO & MARCELINA DETAILS

CRISTINO JAVELLANA DESCENDANTS

BALDOMERA LEDESMA • 5

Juana Javellana

b.1870

Perpetua Javellana

b.1873

Maria Cecilia Javellana

b.1874

Melquiades Javellana

1917-19 President Buenavista

Cirilo Javellana

b.1886-1911 • interred with father in Jaro Cathedral

HERMENIGILDA HINOLAN • 6

Consolacion Javellana

b.1891

Candido Javellana

b.1892

Rosario Dionicia Javellana

b.1895

Fernando Javellana

b.1894

Socorro Javellana

b.1896

Jose Javellana

b.1898

MARCELINA JAVELLANA + VICTORIANO CATAGUE • 7 CHILDREN

Julio Roberto Catague + Consolacion Golez JamiliYOUR LINE

Ruperto Catague + Consolacion vda de Catague (widow, had 11 more children)

Esperanza Catague + Narciso Benedicto

Julieta Catague

Rosario Catague

Encarnacion Catague

Manuel Catague

LEVEL IV-V • JULIO ROBERTO → DAVID B. KATAGUE

LEVEL IV • CHILDREN OF JULIO ROBERTO CATAGUE + CONSOLACION GOLEZ JAMILI

Guillermo Catague

b.1902

+ Juliana Hofileña

Julio Catague

—

David Catague

b.1906

+ Paz Barrido Balleza • YOUR GRANDPARENTS

LEVEL V • PRESENT GENERATION

David Jamili Catague → David B. Katague

Born David Jamili Catague. Changed spelling to Katague — “to be in the middle of the alphabet so teacher wouldn’t call first.” From Catague (early alphabet) to Katague (middle). Autobiography at davidbkatague.blogspot.com.

C → KMIDDLE OF ALPHABET STRATEGYJAMILI MATERNAL

HERITAGE CONNECTIONS • THREE PILLARS OF JARO

Jaro Cathedral Connection

LAPIDA

PANEL A • 4TH COLUMN LEFT AISLE • 3RD STATION

Remains of Cristino and Cirilo Javellanalie in the 4th column left aisle from front, near 3rd station Via Crucis. Transferred Feb 4, 1918 — JARO, ILOILO, I.F.

“RESTOS MORTALES DE
D. CRISTINO Y CIRILO JAVELLANA
DESCANSA EN PAZ!
SOBRE TU TUMBA LAS FLORES DEL RECUERDO NUNCA SE MARCHITAN
TU ESPOSA, HIJOS Y NIETOS.”

Inscription in marble • interior columns with lapidas photo

Casa Mariquit

1803 • OLDEST

PANEL B • JAVELLANA-LOPEZ HOUSE • BANK & RESIDENCE

Built 1803 by banker Ramon Javellana, oldest existing heritage house in Iloilo. Bank and residence — money kept under hardwood floors for security. Home of Maria Salvacion “Mariquit” Javellana who married Fernando Hofileña Lopez Sr. (3-term Vice President of Philippines, ABS-CBN chairman, founder of Lopez Group).

BUILT

1803 • Ramon Javellana

NOW

Museum • Jaro

ADDED • NELLY GARDEN

Nelly Garden Mansion

QUEEN OF HERITAGE HOUSES • NATIONAL HISTORICAL LANDMARK 2004

PANEL C • 1928 • 4-HECTARE BEAUX-ARTS • LOPEZ HERITAGE HOUSE

Built 1928 by Don Vicente Lopez (son of Eugenio Lopez y Jalandoni and Marcela Villanueva) + Doña Elena Hofileña on 4 hectares in Jaro. Named after eldest daughter Nelly Lopez y Hofileña. Beaux-Arts mansion, dubbed Queen of Heritage Houses. National Historical Landmark 2004.

Shows Lopez-Hofileña-Javellana knottingthrough marriage, parallel to your own lineage. Ties via Mariquit Javellana + Fernando Lopez Sr. — the Lopez family built both Casa Mariquit’s legacy and Nelly Garden.

VICENTE LOPEZ + ELENA HOFILEÑA4 HECTARESBEAUX-ARTS

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About Me

David B. Katague is an online memoirist and cultural essayist whose writing has appeared on HubPages and Blogger since 2007. His work reflects a sustained interest in Filipino heritage, family history, senior living, art, community life, and the cultural meaning found in everyday experience. Through memoir, reflection, and essay, he explores the personal and historical dimensions of identity, memory, and belonging. His writing seeks to preserve lived experience while offering thoughtful commentary on the traditions, values, and social realities that shape individual and collective life. As a Filipino-American writer, he brings a distinctive cultural perspective to his work, drawing on personal experience and careful observation to create writing that is both reflective and engaging. His online essays and memoir pieces continue to document a lifelong commitment to storytelling, cultural understanding, and the written record of experience.

Highlights of My Professional Career

In my more than 40 years of professional career, I have experienced both working rank and file, as well as supervising the work of subordinates. I have worked in four private firms and the Federal Government, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where I retired. I enjoyed the challenges and difficulties of both types of job situations. This is the highlights of my work experience story.

My first job after completing my doctorate degree was a Chemist for Chemagro Corporation in Kansas City, Missouri. It was a subsidiary of Bayer Corporation, a German conglomerate. I worked for the analytical chemistry department comprised of about fifty people; half that number was either chemists or biologists. My specific task was to develop analytical methods for the detection of pesticide residues in plant and animal tissues. I worked on my own, similar to six other bench chemists, and we all reported to the same supervisor.

The firm sponsored my visa conversion from a student to a permanent resident, and I was able to legally work and reside in the United States with my family. The company generously took care of its employees. At the end of each successful year, everyone received a 13th month salary bonus. The employees and their families celebrated wonderful annual Christmas parties in a downtown Kansas City hotel, with dancing and free drinks for the whole night.

Inasmuch as I enjoyed and loved working for Chemagro for five years, I found a new job which offered a substantially higher pay. Due to my exemplary work performance, my supervisor preferred and lobbied for me to stay with the company. I had to turn him down because they could not match the package presented by my new employer. It was also a chance for me and my family to move and live in the US west coast, where the mild winter climate is bearable compared to the Midwest.

My next job was at the agricultural research division of Shell Development Company in Modesto, California. I was a Research Chemist, and again I worked individually, same as five other chemists who all reported to a supervisor. My specific duty was similar to my previous job. I worked for them for five years, until the company decided to get out of the pesticide business. They closed their research facility affecting the jobs of more than 200 employees.

My third industrial job was with the agricultural research division of Stauffer chemical company, located in Richmond, California. I was a Senior Research Chemist doing the same project as my two previous jobs. I worked for twelve continuous years for the company, with outstanding annual job performance. I became a Principal Research Chemist, the highest attainable non-supervisory position.

One day in 1986, my supervisor informed me that my job had been eliminated, and I had one day to vacate the facility. It was the most dreadful lay off experience in my life. I felt anger, sadness and humiliation to be dismissed from work with one day notice, after all the years of hard work invested for the company. This was an unforgettable incident and was the gloomiest point in my professional career.
The company terminated sixty research employees, who were upset of the bad news.

One of the chemists was distressed and expressed his outrageous anger by threatening the company and its workers. He told his supervisor of his intention to bomb and burn down the laboratory. He was immediately escorted by the security staff out of the building and into his car. He was informed to leave behind his personal belongings; they will be mailed to his residence. He was warned never to show up again near the company premises or risk getting arrested.

My supervisor was kind and allowed me to take my time to pack up my belongings. It took me two days to clear up my workplace, after toiling for a long period in the same jobsite. We were provided clerical help and office space, in preparation to look for another job, such as updating our resumes, and using the computer and copy machine. We were given six weeks of separation pay plus benefits.

Fortunately, with the help of a friend who is a Church parishioner, I found another job thirty days after leaving Stauffer chemical company. He hired me as a senior research chemist and as a group leader with two technicians to supervise. It was in the same field as my expertise in my previous three jobs spanning the last twenty one years. My new employer was Chevron Chemical Company, and which was located in the same area as my former employer.

This job gave me the introduction and basic knowledge of managing the work of subordinates. I worked for Chevron Company for four and a half years. The company decided to consolidate their research facilities in Texas, and lay off all its research employees. This time I had enough distress and agony from working, and eventually getting laid off from several private companies. To avoid going through any more miserable layoffs, I made a vow that I would never again work for a private company.

In my work experiences, there were noticeable and unavoidable jobsite occurrences. One can never miss the office romantic relationships between co-workers, both illicit and permitted. Though it was frowned upon, there was a boss and staff relationship, which was used as a ploy to get ahead in the company. Some relationships had chemistry, no pun intended, but some never worked out. Oftentimes, there was a sense of distrust among bench chemists for some workers who unjustly obtained preferred work assignments.

Some employees resorted to bribing superiors to get special privileges, such as being able to attend choice conferences and meetings in exciting venues or locations. Likewise, politics was always present at the worksites. It was during an era when various forms of harassment, equal opportunity and discrimination laws were not yet enforced in the workplace. Occasionally, an unexpected chemical explosion happens in a laboratory setting, where luckily no one got seriously hurt.

In the three private companies I worked for, I was able to publish scientific journals for some of the research studies and analytical methods which I developed for the respective companies of Chemagro, Shell Development and Stauffer.

After deciding and making a vow to avoid working in the private sector, I made my new goal which was either to work for the state of California, or the Federal government in Washington, D.C. Four months after I lost my job in Chevron, I was lucky and joyful to be hired by the Food and Drug Administration as a review chemist in the fall of 1990.

In 1994 I was promoted as an Expert Research Chemist with a GS-14 rating. My expertise was on Anti-malarial and Anti-parasitic drug products. In 1997, I was again deservingly promoted to Chemistry team leader, supervising the work of six Chemistry reviewers including five with doctorate degrees.

As team leader, I was responsible for prioritizing, assigning, and assuring the technical accuracy of all chemistry, manufacturing and control issues for all new drug applications submitted to the Division of Anti-Infective Drug Products, Center of New Drugs.

It was part of my responsibility to give advice, instruct and promote high morale and teamwork in my group. My work in the FDA is confidential, until the drug patent on the products I worked on has expired. There are manufacturing supplements that I have approved that are now open for the public in the Internet.

In 1998, I won the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Award. The citation reads, “For outstanding accomplishments in fostering the objectives of the EEO Program by hiring minorities and encouraging their professional growth while providing excellent leadership.” I have received numerous certificates of appreciation, awards in leadership and communications, commendation for teamwork and excellence in the accomplishment of the FDA mission. I have also received several letters of appreciation from private industry for my review work.

There are many good things working as rank and file while enjoying doing one’s job individually. It is a humbling, satisfying and productive experience, if one can work in harmony with one’s immediate supervisor. Working individually develops one’s skills in goal setting and scheduling. But in general, the financial rewards are less than a person who has supervisory responsibilities.

Managing the work of others has its challenges. Moreover, it develops one’s skill in handling and developing people, and the compensation rewards and benefits are better. Due to additional duties, responsibilities and leadership, supervisory work can be more stressful than working as a subordinate. However, supervisory jobs give one more personal growth and satisfaction, based on my personal experience. My work in FDA as a team leader managing the work of six scientists had been the happiest and rewarding work experience in my career in Chemistry. You might also like:

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Poster Chart of My Paternal Ancestral Roots, The Javellana-Lopez Clan of Jaro, Iloilo-Part 1 of 2

Descendants of Don Manuel Javellana
& Doña Gertrudis Lopez
— The Marcelina Branch —

Casa Mariquit

Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral

Nelly Garden Mansion

CRISTINO JAVELLANA DESCENDANTS

MARCELINA JAVELLANA + VICTORIANO CATAGUE • 7 CHILDREN

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