Woke up at 5:30 AM but went back to bed still feeling a little weak from the cold. Woke up again at 6:30 with Imelda but we went back to bed although the sea was inviting—“Now is the time to go water skiing,” Imelda said. I was not up to it.
But when I woke up at 8:00 AM I was feeling better. And after breakfast and a pill of Decolgen, I went skiing.
Tired out. Slept at 10:30. Woke up at 12:00 [P]M. Lunch. Rest but no nap since I was waiting for the newspaper boys from Manila. They arrived at 3:00 PM having had problems about transportation. I gave a press interview after I dictated a new answer to the [Diosdado] Macapagal letter to [Francisco] Kits Tatad.
Inauguration of the new Rural Electrification Plant site at San Roque, Tolosa on land donated by the Romualdez family where Imelda used to play and plant coconuts.
Then at 6:15 PM in the glooming (nagaagaw and liwanag at dilim or takip silim) mass at the Romualdez mausoleum in the poblacion by Mons. Salvador assisted by Mons. Parado and the internment of our unborn child at about 7:00 PM. Most picturesque and sad. Imelda was crying all the time.
Official Gazette for June 19, 1972: THE PRESIDENT and the First Lady had a reunion with their families in Tolosa where the latter attended the symbolic interment early in the evening of the unborn child of the First Couple.
Assisted by the First Lady, the President deposited the foetal remains in a nich on the earth at the Romualdez family plot in Tolosa.
Inscribed on the marble slab marking the grave were the words: “To our unborn child, with whom so many of our dreams died Ferdinand and Imelda”
In the box was a bottle containing the “product of conception,” which the First Couple had lost through the First Lady’s miscarriage.
Prior to the interment, a “Mass for the Angels” was said by Msgr. Manuel Salvador, bishop of Palo, Leyte with the little white box placed at the altar.
Present at the rites were the President’s mother, Mrs. Josefa Edralin Marcos, his brother Dr. Pacifico Marcos and sisters Gov. Elizabeth Marcos-Keon and Mrs Fortunata Marcos-Barba and her husband. On the Romualdez side were the brothers and sisters of the First Lady, namely, Gov. Benjamin Romualdez, Mrs. Alita Romualdez Martel, Mrs. Conchita Romualdez Yap and Navy Lt. Alfredo Romualdez.
Earlier in the day, the President and the First Lady attended the formal turnover and the cornerstone laying, ceremonies of the plant of the Leyte Cooperative, Inc. at Barrio San Roque, also in Tolosa.
The plant site, a one hectare piece of land, was donated by the Romualdez Family,
The President laid the cornerstone of the electric plant, while the First Lady signed as witness to the turnover by the National Electrification Administration of electric generators to the Leyte Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Consisting of 10 General Motors generators with a capacity of 400,000 kva, the electric plant could serve some 100,000 people in 10 towns.
The generators were procured by the NEA from the United States stockpile in Okinawa, and were turned over to Gov. Romualdez by NEA Chairman Ramon Ravanzo.