Alicia Syquia-Quirino

Alicia Jimenez Syquia-Quirino was the wife of Elpidio Quirino, the sixth president of the Philippines. A member of the prominent Syquia family of Vigan, she was killed alongside three of her children by Japanese forces during the Battle of Manila in the waning months of World War II. As she did not live to see her husband assume the presidency, her surviving daughter, Victoria Quirino-Gonzalez, fulfilled the role of First Lady of the Philippines.