Pilar N. Jose

For Nanay Pilar's Funeral Mass at Beatitudes of Our Lord on Tuesday January 6, 2026 the family is requesting that everyone wear WHITE in her honor. Nanay Pilar loved life and the color white. 

NANAY PILAR’S LOVE & LEGACY LIVE THROUGH GENERATIONS

Nanay Pilar Navaja Jose, a loving wife, a beloved mother, an ever-caring grandmother and a steadfast matriarch peacefully joined her Creator last December 25, 2025 at the age of a little over 100 years. Her God given long life was a testament of unwavering faith, selfless love and steadfast sacrifice to her family and unending devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Born in the Philippines on October 10, 1925, she got married at the age of 20 to a military man, Ernesto Cipres Jose and was blessed with eight children. Though struggling in life, they successfully enabled their children to finish their chosen professions and are now living comfortably.

While her husband served his home country as a soldier, Nanay Pilar single-handedly reared and nurtured her children with faith in God, courage, discipline and boundless love. She was a mother and a father demonstrating a firm yet gentle and strong yet compassionate dedication which guided and grounded her children in values that would last for a lifetime.

Together with her husband she instilled in her children the importance of loving and caring for one another, deep faith in God and valuing the significance of education. These values became the enduring legacies of which their children have actualized through their lives.

In 1987, she migrated to the United States and reunited with her husband having been petitioned earlier by their children. She was a great help in caring for her grandchildren who reciprocated such sacrifice in her later years.

A deeply religious woman and a devotee of Mama Mary, Nanay Pilar lived her life grounded in prayer, humility, love for her family and service for others. Her faith guided her through joys and hardships known not only among her children but for all those who know her. She was a Nanay to all of them. Her passion for singing paved the way to become a choir member of the Beatitudes Parish for more than 30 years. She extended her hands during the parish festivities, preparing pansit and egg rolls. Her passion for cooking leche flan even reached the hands of those whom she cared. Her extensive parish work and activities when she was still in the Philippines established a strong connection with the clergy. She was well loved by these priests who made sure that when they were in the US took time in visiting her. In turn Nanay Pilar insured that they were all taken care of by being a great host to them.

Nanay Pilar will be remembered for her generous heart, resiliency, quiet strength, loving and unwavering devotion to her family and faith in God. Though she is now at home with the Lord and reunited with the departed loved ones who have gone before her she will be forever remembered, loved and be felt by the lives she dearly touched.

She is survived by her loving children, in-laws, grandchildren, great grandchildren and a great, great grandchild who remain ever grateful for a century of love, sacrifice and guidance she left behind.

May she rest in eternal peace, embraced by Mama Mary she so dearly loved.