My thoughts and prayers are with your family. The Salvador and Quintos families have always made us all feel at home.  Her legacy will live on.

How do you say goodbye to someone you love? The one that molded and encouraged you in everything you do. I am what I am because of you Mama!  There are not enough words to describe my loving Mama. She is God fearing, strong-willed, strict, practical, fair, understanding, all heart, classy and elegant! Together with Papa, she is proud to say she raised all 10 of us well!  I will miss our drive to the doctors, beauty salon, the ocean, gardens and parks, simple shopping and the occasional casino. You see her quietly stroking the slot machine with her endless smile when the "bonus" round shows up. She penny pinch with everything, never indulgent but gladly releases her $ for the chance to win the big one!! House-bound, we watch her Filipino programs, her game shows, word puzzles and most of all hanging out with her sharing stories and news of the family. Mama left us numerous legacy we hope to pass to our children and the next generation. Her request was simple; love and help each other. Thank you so much Mama! Rest with no worries. We are all doing fine. Till we meet again. I love you with all my heart!

As a girl, the two outstanding memories I have of Lola Saling are how she was generous and tough.  She peeled and let me eat oranges to my heart's content and during an outing at Dana Point jetty, sprained her ankle but didn't even wince.  As a woman, I realize how she understood the ways of the world.  She kept grace under the most challenging emotional and physical situations.  She was modest, reserved, accomplished through the success of her husband and children, and simply happy.  These qualities are those of a beautiful woman, an unassuming leader and someone I am grateful to descend from. May Lola Saling be in peace with her loved ones for eternity.

Lola Saling was loving, kind and always made me feel like her adopted granddaughter.  I have the most heart-warming memories of her, and I know I'll carry them with me for the rest of my life and remember her fondly.  God bless you Lola, may you be in peace...

Words are not enough to thank you for all the sacrifices that you made in raising us all.  I'm proud to say that I grew up to be a fine woman, have raised wonderful kids who are on their way to continue the legacy that you left. You thought us how to love, to persevere, be patient, be strong and hopeful and most of all you thought us the value of money.  In your quiet and unassuming ways, you influenced each and every one of us.  We are who we are because of you. Our Mama Saling ... dearly loved wife, mother, grandmother and most of all great grandmother.  Lovely days of fond memories!  We will miss you Mama.

'til we see you again Lola Saling. Take all our love with you while we keep with us all the loving memories.

"The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart."

Rosalita Quintos Eulogy  February 7, 2017
By Marissa Quintos Doszkocs

It seems like we were just here - this place, together with all of you, our loving and supportive friends and relatives.  We were just here, with this same feeling of devastating loss.  Somehow, sadness binds us closer.  Our collective drops of tears forming into one coordinated tidal wave of grief. 

We have lost such an important person in our lives.  For us, she was this unique combination of a strong and unsinkable matriarch and our beautiful and delicate flower.  Her name Rosalita appropriately means tiny rose. When we were young and even well into our adulthood, we feared crossing her and we did exactly what we were told.  We strive to always please her and competed to be her favorite.  She had this way of manipulating our thoughts into submitting to her wishes and for the outcome to be exactly what she wanted from us.  She does this with the right choice of words, said quietly but with a particular tone and this look in her eyes that suggests we really don't have much of a choice but to do whatever she says.  Some of our own children have accused us of this same kind of Jedi-like mind trick powers.  She was the original Jedi master.   With this, she taught us that strength and power need not be administered with force.  Her quiet ways were far more effective.  

She taught us the value of hard work and perseverance, and to appreciate the value of the money you earned through your hard work.  She grew up during the depression and war, and her penny saving ways followed her even here in America, the land of the plenty.  And she made sure that we are not wasteful, no matter how comfortable life became.  She taught us to always look our best, even if we are feeling badly inside.  We always have to present our very best appearance.  She's been known to hide her face powder and lipstick in a pocket or somewhere close by, ready to be applied at a moment's notice.  I remember one night in particular, not too long ago, when we admitted her to the ER at 2 am.  I was leaning down fixing her blanket and I asked if there's anything I can do or get for her as we wait for the doctor.  She gestured me to come closer and inspected my face, and said "you really need to put some face powder on".  Her own face aptly powdered of course.   I just laughed and kissed her on the forehead, and put on some face powder as soon as I was able to go to the restroom. 

She taught us to always have a kind heart, especially with those not fortunate enough to receive kindness from others.  More importantly, she reminds us to be kind to each other as siblings. 
Family was very important to her, and so we kept ours tight knit and close.  She was very proud of all our accomplishments, big or small, from all of us siblings, to our children, to our children's children, and all our significant others.  She acknowledged each of our successes and encouraged us to stand up and try again when we encountered failures.   

We will forever miss her.  Right now we must learn to be what she was to us, with each other; to be each other's cheerleader and biggest fan. This is what she would have wanted.  

There are days when we feel like we have been sad all the time these last few months, from the loss of our brother Alex, in September and now our Mama passing.  There's only so much sadness a person can bear.  But in between these bleak, weary and dark days, rays of sunshine broke through and our hearts swelled with happiness as we celebrated the birth of a new grand-nephew Julian Alex and the marriage of our niece Mildred with our newest nephew Abe. The family flourishes and it continues on.  Her values and lessons are passed on from one generation to the next.  Her legacy will live on, our beautiful rose, forever in our hearts.  

Thank you all for coming and lending your loving support to all of us.  You have all been through this sad journey with us since our tragedy in September, and you've generously held out your hands and your hearts to lift us up and envelop us with your love and friendship.  On behalf of my brother Rolly and his family, my sister Estelle and her family, my brother Danny and his family, my sister Sylvia and her family, my brother Jose, my brother Gilbert and his wife, my sister Wilma and her family, my sister Cecilia and her family, my brother Alex's widow Mafe, myself and my own family, we sincerely give our heartfelt thanks.

OBITUARY

Rosalita Guerrero Quintos

4 December, 1922 – 31 January, 2017

Eternal Hills Mortuary & Crematory at Eternal Hills Memorial Park

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