Teddy Ballesteros

Ballesteros, Teddy, age 71 of Canton, Aug. 1, 2008.Loving husband of Rosella. Beloved father of Teddy III (Cherie), Jay (Mabel), Pearl (Bernard) Hinlo, Dave Allen (Jewel), Ruth Lynn (Emil) Colasito. Dear son of Pepita and brother of Ruth (Gary) Abesamis. Proud grandfather of 13. Visitation Monday 2-10 PM and Funeral Service Monday 7 PM at Vermeulen Funeral Home, 46401 West Ann Arbor Road, Plymouth (Between Sheldon & Beck).� Teddy M. Ballesteros pursued a B.S.E.Ed course at the Philippines Normal College, Manila after high school.� A far cry from his shy and quiet personality in high school.� He metamorphosed into an active student leader in college.� He represented his school in several national conferences in Baguio and Manila sponsored by the College Y and the Students' Council of the Philippines.� After graduating fron PNC (now PNU), he chose to teach at the City Schools of Manila.� He was a classroom teacher for five years before he was assigned as a Teacher-Community Coordinator, in charge of his school's adult and literacy education program.� In the next ten years as a Community Coordinator, he was elected several times as a member of the board of directors of the Adult and Community Educators' National Organization of the Philippines, Inc.� This gave him the oppotunity to go around the country from Aparri to Jolo to help promote literacy and vocational education to��� out-of-school youth and adults.� It was also during this period that he represented the country as one of three government delegates to the International Seminar on Adult Literacy and Family Planning Education held in New Delhi and Lucknow, India sponsored by World Education, Inc. (New York), and a year later, to the Workshop on Population Education Curriculum Development, sponsored by the Colombo Plan. He was also deeply involved in several socio-civic organizations which made him recipient of the bronze and silver service awards of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines; the Aurora Quezon medal from the Philippines National Red Cross; diplomas of merit and scrolls of honor from the National Press Club, YMCA of the Philippines and Anti TB Organization. He also obtained full scholarships in M.A. (Adult Education) at the Baguio Vacation Normal School and in M.Ed. (Educational Technology) at U.P.-Diliman. His next six years afforded him promotions to Assistant Principal, Acting-Principal and finally Division Supervisor in Educational Media.� He resigned from the Division of City Schools Manila in 1981 to accept a job offer as General Manager of the biggest private water purification and ice production company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Crystal Organization) and retired from the job after eleven years. Teddy is married to Rosella Batoon, a graduate of A.B. Social Work from Phillipine Women's University, who recently retired as an Assistant Admin. Chief and Management and Audit Analyst of the Accounting Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, G.H.Q.� They have five children-Teddy III, a cum laude graduate of B.S. Accountancy from Polvtechnic University of the Philippines; Jay, a business management graduate also at P.U.P. and is now a District Manager of Metro Drug, Inc.; Pearl B. Hinlo, a B.S.E. (Math Major) from the University of the Philippines-Diliman, is now a high school teacher in Sacramento, California, USA; Dave Allen, a BS Accountancy of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines works with "iTouchpoint", a call center company; and Ruth Lynn who took AB Psychology at the Philippine Women's University is now working as CLSA Exchange Capital, Inc. in Makati City.

Teddy Ballesteros

December 17, 1936 - August 1, 2008