February 28 2018: ESTACION, Adelina D.

Adelina D. Estacion (age 92)

Adelina Estacion, recently of Silver Spring, MD passed peacefully in her home at the age of 92 on the 23rd of February 2018. She was born in 1925 in Dumaguete, The Philippines to Mariana (nee Arrieta) and Castor Dominguez (both deceased). During what she called the “Japanese Occupation” (WWII), she hid in the mountains with the guerrillas until the end of the war. Shortly after the War, she left the Philippines to work in the newly established Philippine Consulate in Chicago from 1948 until 1953. She used the opportunity to get her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Business Administration from Northwestern University. She would ultimately obtain her CPA in both the Philippines and the United States. She returned to the Philippines after graduation to work as a professor of Accounting at the University of the East in Manila where she met and married her husband of nearly 58 years, Teodoro Estacion.

In 1963 they moved to the United States where Teodoro had obtained a position at the University of Texas at Austin. After that assignment was complete, they moved to New York City and had two daughters, Maria Lourdes Estacion and Christine Geraldine Estacion. Soon after their birth, they returned to the Philippines for a few years where both she and her husband were once again professors of Accounting at the University of the East before permanently moving to the United States in 1970, settling back in New York City.

She worked as a bookkeeper and then obtained a position as a tax auditor with the State of New York soon after obtaining her US citizenship. She would work as an auditor for 20 years before retiring in 1999. In her free time she loved to sew and would make most of her own clothing and her children’s clothing. She also loved orchids and cultivated many of them. A strong believer in volunteer service, she served as the volunteer accountant of St Bartholomew’s Roman Catholic Church’s Sunday School Program and also as a Spanish translator.

In 2007, she and her husband moved to Silver Spring, Maryland after living in Elmhurst, Queens for 35 years.

She is survived by her husband Teodoro Estacion, daughter Christine Estacion of Laurel, MD, daughter Maria Estacion and husband Douglas Abraham of Ellicott City, MD, her niece Marie Dominguez Duhamel of Harlingen TX and numerous family members scattered throughout the United States and the world.

Funeral Mass will be 10am on March 10th at Our Lady of the Angels Chapel on the grounds of Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville, Maryland.  Donations may be made in lieu of flowers to the American Heart Association.