Crescent L. Lauron
My Uncle Esing, Crescent L. Lauron, was originally from Lambunao, Iloilo, the same barrio town as my mother, Salvacion Mallo. He arrived on Guam on Oct. 10, 1951, on a ship named Gen. Aulfman. He was one of the Filipino Camp Roxas overseas contract workers assigned in 1952 at Costs and Reports Section Division, Fiscal Dept., U.S. Naval Supply Depot. In the first photo above, Crescent Lauron is seated in the front row, third from right.
When my father, Benjamin Mallo, was confined at the tuberculosis ward at the U.S. Naval Hospital, my mother was all alone with my brother, Steve, and myself, as toddlers at home. Uncle Esing was the one who made his way from his work at Camp Roxas through security barricades set up on Marine Drive during Typhoon Condition 1 before a major typhoon. He boarded up our house and stayed with us until everything was fine.
In 1957, he was among one of the first groups of contract overseas workers from Iloilo, Philippines, sworn in as U.S citizens. He later worked as an accountant for the U.S. Trust Territory government in Saipan. He married my Auntie Lydia, who stayed with us on Guam while she worked at the Chief Brodie Memorial School for the handicapped, formerly located near the present-day Tamuning Mayor's Office.
Auntie Lydia eventually joined Uncle Esing in Saipan when he obtained housing in the former government housing on Capitol Hill. In those days, we would fly in a small prop plane to fly to visit them in Saipan. Uncle Esing and Auntie Lydia eventually moved back to Guam where Uncle Ising worked as a Government of Guam accountant and Auntie Lydia as a GovGuam Department of Education special education teacher. Together with their children, Lucy and Carol, they lived in Agat/Santa Rita before moving to their present Tamuning residence.
---JoAnn Mallo, goddaughter
