Aurora Matic Meek's Obituary
AURORA “Mama Ying” MATIC-MEEK 1925-2014On behalf of the family of Aurora Matic-Meek (best known as Mama Ying), we invite you to a celebration of her beautiful life and the loving impact she left with those that loved her dearly.Aurora was born on September 14, 1925 and she took her place beside our Lord and Savior on November 21, 2014. She leaves behind her beloved brother – Agapito “Totoy” Matic, beloved son – Rudy Samatra, two beautiful daughters Teresita Ramoran and Josephine Rozales, grand children Louie Samatra, Philip Samatra, Sheila “Jing” Pajar, Charmaine Ramoran, Alex Ramoran, and Janelle Rozales and her great grandchildren – Willz, Renzill, Vivien, Noah, Athena, Leila, Jayden and Somaya along with many cousins nieces, nephews and dear friends that she cared deeply.Mama Ying grew up in Morong, Bataan Province in the Philippines where her parents Antonio Matic and Cecilia Castro had a lumber company. A direct hit by a bomb during the Second World War in the early 1940’s destroyed their house and livelihood.After the war, her parents and her sister Isabel Pena, her brothers Elias Matic and Totoy Matic (still living in Philippines) moved to Nueva Ecija Province, Philippines to start a new life. Mama Ying met Placido Samatra, a Filipino soldier of the United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) and a Bataan defender who survived the infamous Bataan Death March during the Pacific Second World War. Placido & Aurora had their first born son, “Rudy” Samatra in Nueva Ecija in 1945.In the early 1950s, The Family moved to Tondo, Manila where her two children Teresita Ramoran and Josephine Rozales were born. She separated from Placido in the late 1950’s. As a single mother, she worked as a machine operator at the Riverside Mills Corporation to raise her 3 children.She then moved to the United States in the early 1980s where she met Harry, best known as Papa Harry Meek. Mama Ying worked and lived in the Alexander Residence in San Francisco, CA as a caregiver to the disabled and senior citizens for 25 years.She lived the last 6+ years of her life under the care of her beloved daughter Josephine Rozales in Antelope, CA. She was 89.
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