On September 25, 1949, Don Felix L. Montinola, who was the 9th mayor of Victorias from 1934 to 1940, died peacefully in his home in Victorias, Negros Occidental, surrounded by his wife, Doña Dorotea Montinola, her children and grandchildren.
During his term as mayor, he built the municipio in the late 1930s with the help of then President Manuel L. Quezon (read blog here).
At his wake, held at the second floor of the ayuntamiento (town hall) or municipio (as what we call it in the Philippines) that he helped build, his beloved Victoriahanon as well as politicians from the province and neighboring towns and cities also came to pay their last respects.
After a requiem mass in Victorias, his funeral cortege made its way to the Montinola family's mausoleum in Saravia and along the way, homes were seen hanging black cloth on their windows to show their respect to a great man.
Although Don Felix was born in Jaro, Iloilo, on February 16, 1864, he died as a real Victoriahanon. (See the photograph and read the story of his birthday celebration in 1940 here).
Don Felix was 85.🙏
(Read chapters of the History of Victorias here)
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