Dona Aurora Aragon Quezon

On February 19, 1888, Dona Aurora Aragon Quezon, wife of Commonwealth

President Manuel L. Quezon, was born in Baler, Tayabas (now Aurora province.)

Dona Aurora stayed in the background during her husband's political life, involving
herself with women's organizations such as the National Federation of Women's
Clubs, of which she was honorary chairman.
As the first presidential couple to reside in Malacañang, First Lady Aurora spent as
little time as possible there, preferring to stay in a "nipa house" in Malacañang Park
or in her farm, Kaleidan, in Arayat, Pampanga.

Still, she was an active First Lady, engaging herself in the campaign to give Filipino
women the right of suffrage, which was achieved in 1937.
She was involved in the Girl Scouts of the Philippines and the Associación de Damas
Filipinas, a noted orphanage in Manila, honorary president of another orphanage,
the White Cross, located in San Juan. She accompanied her husband to Corregidor
in December, 1941, where Quezon was inaugurated to a second term as President,
being sworn in by Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos on December 30, 1941.
She and her daughters volunteered as nurses for the Red Cross.

She served as the first chairperson of the Philippine National Red Cross when it was
established as an independent Red Cross Organization in 1947, and held the
position until her death. She was also named as honorary vice president of the
Philippine Tuberculosis Society.
She continued to be involved in civic work, such as the efforts to rebuild the Antipolo
Church. She received honorary doctorates from the University of Santo Tomas and
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She was likewise bestowed the Ozanam
Award from the Ateneo de Manila University, and the Pro Ecclessia et Pontifice
Cross from Pope Pius XII.