Cleotilde Mercado obituary
My former nanny, Cleotilde Mercado, who has died aged 86, was part of my family for 47 years. She was a selfless and energetic individual who devoted her time to looking after others while supporting her family back home in the Philippines.
Tilde was the sixth of 10 children and was born in Batanes, the northernmost province of the Philippines. When the Japanese invaded in 1941, she and her family went to hide in the forest. They would creep down to their fields at night to harvest crops, and lived off wild yams and spring water. When she was 15, Tilde went to Manila to be a house girl and then, in 1973, she heard from a cousin that a family in London was looking for a nanny and housekeeper.
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