Friday, August 17, 2007 Couple to wed, join missions
FIL-AM Borbonanons and Danawanons will be in Borbon tomorrow to be guests at the renewal of marriage vows of Leo Montegrande and Gemma Cabahug-Montegrande in their 30th year as partners for life. The couple now lives in Harbor City, California. They are blessed with three children and two grandchildren.
Both are active in Pinoy projects—the Danao Association of USA (DAUSA) and the Borbon Association USA—which give medical services to poor students in mountain barangays.
Leo is a corporate controller of Doorking Inc. while his wife Gemma is with Union Bank as assistant executive
Scholarships
In their terms as presidents of the associations, they have led Filipinos in Harbor City to undertake, among others, medical missions back in Cebu and offered scholarships to students. Some 30 poor students from families in the mountain barangays have finished college with bachelor’s degrees through the DAUSA.
During Gemma’s watch as DAUSA president, the association sustained the annual medical-surgical mission at the Danao District Hospital and initiated the Adopt-a-Student project.
Besides some association members coming over for the Montegrande marriage renewal, the DAUSA medical mission volunteers will proceed to Borbon on Sept. 21 and join the Borbon Association USA for the first time, as a gesture of appreciation for what the married couple have done to the two associations in the US.
