Priscilla Crudo Olaes' Obituary
Priscilla was born on January 16, 1927 in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines to Narciso Toledo Crudo and Crisfina Cadiz Robles. She died on 21 December 2023, in St Helens.
Priscilla was often called “Presy”. Her brother was Dominador Robles Crudo and her sisters were Rufina (Robles) Crudo Pan and Efitania Robles Crudo.
Priscilla married Victor Galan Olaes on 21 September 1947. Her sons are Emmanuel Crudo Olaes and Raymond Victor Olaes. Her daughter is Roslyn (Crudo) Olaes Granger. Priscilla immigrated to the United States in 1952 with her husband and two children, Emmanuel and Roslyn. She became a U.S. citizen on 4/26/1957. She and her husband raised their family mostly in San Diego and then moved to Carson, California in 1968 after Victor’s retirement from the Navy. He began his second career working for Delta Airlines.
Priscilla graduated from National University in the Philippines as a midwife. After immigrating to the U. S., she did not practice as a midwife, but did other types of nursing. After her children were married and on their own, she began working for the US Federal Civil Service. She retired from the US Federal Civil Service in Carson, California where she lived until her husband’s death in 2015.
Priscilla moved to Oregon to live with her daughter in July of 2016. She made yearly trips to visit her sons Emmanuel and Raymond in California. Her last trip to visit them was in September 2023. She remained fairly active and functional doing her own personal care and attending Sunday Mass with her daughter or her son if she was in California. In October of 2023, she was hospitalized for an intestinal obstruction, which cleared on its own, but she became too weak and fragile to do her own care anymore. Hospice care began in December of 2023 and she died peacefully on 12/21/2023.
She is survived by her children Emmanuel, Roslyn and Raymond, nine grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
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