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Amelia Juico Gordon (née Amelia Nepomuceno Juico; September 4, 1919 – November 19, 2009) was a mayor of Olongapo City<ref name="Nance">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Killen">Template:Cite news</ref> and mother of Senator and Red Cross Chairman Richard "Dick" Gordon.

Early lifeEdit

Amelia Juico Gordon was born on September 4, 1919, to Juan Juico and María Nepomuceno y Espíritu.<ref name="maria juico">Maria Juico's Death Certificate</ref> Due to financial difficulties, she was never able to finish high school.

Personal lifeEdit

She married James Leonard T. Gordon, Sr., son of an American immigrant John Jacob Gordon, James Gordon became the First Municipal Mayor of Olongapo, Zambales. Amelia Juico-Gordon managed several businesses, and supported her husband with his career. She had five children, and supported abandoned children of the city. She began taking in abandoned Filipino-American children, adopting and raising them as her own, and even giving them her "Juico" last name.<ref name="Fineman">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Hinckley">Template:Cite news</ref>

As her husband was walking to the City Hall with people crowding around him, he was shot in the head by an operative of the opposition. She was left to raise her five children and also her adopted children, on her own.Template:Cn

Political lifeEdit

Template:Moresources After her husband's death, Olongapo residents petitioned Gordon to stand for election.<ref name="Killen"/> Gordon was the first elected city mayor and first woman elected city Mayor of Olongapo in 1967. Template:Cn

After her term in office, she continued her life of service in the private sector, advocating the protection and promotion of the welfare of needy and abandoned children, legally adopting fifty-four children as her own, changing the lives of thousands as the founder of the Olongapo Boys Town and Girls Home.Template:Cn

She founded several other civic organizations such as the Olongapo City Civic Action Group (OCAG), the Iba-Olongapo Catholic Women's League (IOCWL), and the Olongapo City Red Cross (OCRC) where she also served as Chairperson for twenty-eight years. She led and founded many civic groups in Olongapo including the Olongapo City Boy's and Girls Home, Red Cross Olongapo City Chapter (RCOCC) and the Catholic Women's League of Zambales (CWLZ).Template:Cn

AwardsEdit

She was Former assemblywoman of the 1984 Batasang Pambansa and recipient of The Pearl S. Buck International Woman of The Year Award in 2002, only the second Filipina to receive such, for her accomplishments in her civic and humanitarian endeavor.

DeathEdit

She died on November 17, 2009, at the age of ninety due to stroke.Template:Citation needed

DescendantsEdit

Several of Gordon's relatives were also prominent figures in politics.

ReferencesEdit

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