Romans 6:8-11 teaches that believers who have died with Christ through faith and baptism are freed from sin’s dominion and are now alive to God. Because Christ, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies and lives to God, believers must also consider themselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus, living a new life of holiness.
LOLITA Acorda Cabie, born in Bacarra, Ilocos Norte and former baker at Ted’s Bakery until 2018, a popular and historic spot on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, died on August 30, Hawaii time, her family announced. She was 80.
Cabie, born on Sept. 16, 1944, was the second to the youngest daughter of 11 children of Eusebio Acorda and the former Leonora Mendoza of Bacarra, Ilocos Norte, who both migrated to Hawaii in the 1970s.
She lived in Hawaii for 27 years, where she relocated after the death in December 1997 of her husband William Valentin in Pinili, her domicile for 34 years where she and her husband raised seven children.
She used to spend vacations in Pinili and, despite her years in Hawaii, would still cook for her children her relished pinakbet: vegetable stew from the Ilocos region, characterized by its pungent flavor from fish paste or what those in Ilocos Norte call boggoong and a mix of local vegetables like squash, eggplant, string beans, birch flower, okra, bitter gourd, pannalayapen leaves, rich sprinkling of tomatoes and garlic cloves.
William Valentin was a sousaphone player of the Pinili Troubadors Band and the Pinili Tiger Boys Band of the small town of Pinili in the 1950s-1960s.
She is survived by her children living with her in Hawaii: Louvelyn; William (Maricel Antonio); Leonardo Eusebio (Leslie Galang)] Julie Ann; as well as Diane Jane (Efren Perdido); Malou (Michael Ong); both in Toronto, and Nora in Hamilton, Canada); 13 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren; her younger sister Tina and three sisters-in-law on her brothers’ side.
She is also survived by three other sisters-in-law on her husband’s side: Petrona, residing in Texas, USA; Felicitas, who lives in California, and Maria Rosa, who lives in Metro Manila.
She is the sister-in-law of Honor Blanco Cabie, Opinion Editor of the English language broadsheet Manila Standard.
Her eldest daughter, Louvelyn, an alumna of the Divine Word University in Laoag City, described her mother as “the strongest and most loving person I know, always putting others before herself and is my biggest source of comfort, inspiration, and unconditional love.”
Funeral plans are being arranged by the family.
