Life After Lola Coring
How He Moved On and Make the Most of Life...
When Lola Coring died from ailment in 1991, Lolo Jose was unconsolable but moved on with his life. Using his pension as initial capital, he set up a micro-lending business with fish and other market vendors as his target clients. In a span of ten years, his business grew to such great proportion, made possible by his resilience and hardwork, with only his pen and a small notebook as his daily companion. In 2003, he decided to use his accumulated earnings to build the pink house. It saddened him to let go of the ancestral house where he and Lola Coring raised their family together but it proved no longer safe to continue holding on to it.
The construction costs considerably reduced his business capital and sometime in 2005, he was no longer accepting new loan applications. As he is now in his nineties, we find that development a blessing in disguise as it means he will no longer have to do his daily rounds of collecting loan payments and going home at dark. A man of simple needs, he is now happily spending his days visiting his friends, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.