Maligayang Bati sa Langit, Tito Ed!
Maligayang Bati sa Langit, Tito Ed!
Six of the eight Perseveranda siblings, gathered before a wedding in 2008 — a birthday tribute to Tito Ed, gone since 2020 but never left out of the frame.
I took this photo on May 17, 2008, in Las Vegas, Nevada — hours before Tito Ed's son Glenn stood up to marry Chanylle. Everyone was already dressed, already posed for a dozen family shots, when I got this one: six of the eight Perseveranda siblings in one frame, together in a way that doesn't happen often once a family scatters across coastlines and time zones.
Left to right: Manuel, Ronald, Diana, Luz, Grace, and Eduard — anim sa walong magkapatid, six of the eight. I pulled this photo out again this week because September 4 is Tito Ed's birthday. He passed away in 2020, but the day doesn't stop belonging to him.
Three of Tito Ed's sisters in this photo — Tita Gigi (Diana), Tita Nene (Grace), and Tita Lila (Luz) — settled together in Glendale, California, and already have their own place in this archive. One more birthday is coming up fast: Tito Maning (Manuel), also pictured here, on 9/13. Virgo season runs deep in this family.
Magkapatid mahg-kah-pa-TEED
Meaning: Siblings — brothers and sisters of the same parents.
The Perseveranda line counts walong magkapatid, eight siblings. Six of them stand in this photo. It is the kind of word that only means something once you count how many chairs used to be needed at the table.
A Wedding Photo, Six of Eight
This wasn't a reunion built around gathering the family — it was a wedding that happened to gather it. Tito Ed's son Glenn was marrying Chanylle that evening, and for one afternoon in Las Vegas, six of the eight Perseveranda siblings stood in the same square of sidewalk at the same time. Tito Ed, father of the groom, stood among them — not yet knowing, none of us knowing, how much that photo would come to matter.
Tito Ed, Gone Since 2020
Tito Ed passed away in 2020. September 4 was always his day before that, and it still is. This is the part of PinoyBuilt that isn't for search engines or strangers — it's for my children, my cousins and their kids, and for whoever in this family opens this page years from now looking for him.
Manlangit Tayo
Manlangit tayo — we are Manlangit. It's a line in our own family tree, the ancestral thread that runs alongside the Perseveranda and Camposano names on both sides of the ocean. Tito Ed carried that line as much as anyone in this photo did. If you want to see where it connects, PinoyBuilt's genealogy archive traces the Manlangit line in more detail.
- J.F.R. Perseveranda — personal photograph and family history, Las Vegas, NV (May 17, 2008)
- PinoyBuilt Genealogy Archive — the Manlangit line (Lane 8)
Help Us Become the #1 Filipino-American Media Platform in the U.S.
PinoyBuilt is built by the community, for the community. If this article meant something to you — if it made you proud, informed, or connected — we need your help to reach every kababayan out there.
💬 Drop a comment below — share a memory of Tito Ed, or help confirm a detail from that Vegas weekend.
📲 Text this article to a friend, a tita, a teammate — anyone who needs to see this.
📣 Share it on your socials — every share brings us closer.
4.6 million Filipinos in the U.S. One platform telling our stories. Salamat, kababayan.
Founder & Editor
J.F.R. Perseveranda
J.F. (Jonjo) left the Philippines at age nine, spending a lifetime bridging the gap between his Marikina roots and his Chicago/Vallejo upbringing. A proud Hogan Spartan from East Vallejo and resident of LA/SF, he founded PinoyBuilt not just as a digital archive, but as a cultural compass for his three children to navigate their heritage, language, and identity with Pinoy Pride.
Comments
Post a Comment
Hi! Thank you for dropping by. Please leave us a comment. Sige na!