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Note: John Nahlen Jr., Henry Nahlen and their mother, Martha Pelina, were left behind in the Philippines, in 1936, when John Baptist Nahlen returned to the USA after his Army tour of duty was completed in the Philippines.
Martha Pelina died of food poisoning during WWII. Dora Pelina Sy, her sister, came to Manila and took the two boys with her to Baguio, Philippines.
The boys were taken out of school in the early grades, to help with family expenses. (John Jr. told his children that the only inheritance he could leave his children was an education..this point was so clearly made that six of seven children have college degrees. The seventh obtained a vocational education.) Later John Jr. went to work in Manila, to persue his own life.
Henry married Chistina Baybay, a teacher, and had four children, while living in Baguio and working as a driver at the Philex mines. On 12 August 1963, Henry died in a truck wreck during work.
Dora Sy returned to Manila to bring John Jr. back to Baguio. John Jr. later married his sister-in-law, Cristina Baybay Nahlen, raising her four children and three of their children and adopting another. John Jr. worked as a driver at the Philex mines, retiring after twenty-five plus years.
John Jr. was a big man by Philippine standards at 5' 8". (Henry was 6'.) He was an authoritarian father, who instilled high moral standards for his children. He was also a loving father and husband.
John died three months after his beloved wife Cristina.
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