Mrs. Sonia Dispo Pacis

Sonia Dispo Pacis passed away on April 1, 2022, surrounded by family at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Ontario, where she retired as a Certified Case Manager in 2016. She was 70, having celebrated her birthday last February 25. She resided in Chino. Sonia is survived by her husband of 41 years, Primo Pacis, and their two children, son Paul John (PJ) and daughter Stephanie. She is also survived by an older sister Victoria Flores (Vicky), younger sister Villa Coloma, both living in the Philippines, and brother Richard (Jun) Dispo, residing in Eastvale, California, and their families. Born in San Leon, Umingan, Pangasinan in the Philippines in 1952, she graduated from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) School of Nursing, Class of 1974, after finishing her secondary education at Rosales National High School. Sonia started as a pediatrics nurse at the Philippine General Hospital after passing the Nursing Board exam and came to the United States in 1977 on a work permit. She worked at hospitals in Kansas City, Missouri, Chicago and New York before finally moving to Los Angeles, California where she got married in 1981. During her career as a Registered Nurse, she obtained certifications in Emergency Nursing, Critical Care, Mobile Intensive Care, and Case Management. She worked at various Kaiser Permanente Southern California locations for a total of 25 years, retiring as a Case Manager at KP Ontario at the end of 2016. Sonia loved to travel not only to tourist spots but to religious and historic places around the world with her husband Primo. She made several pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Rome, Greece, Turkey, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Mexico and Peru. She was an active parishioner of her parish church, St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Chino Hills for 30 years. She served as past chairperson of the Rosary Group of the Filipino Catholics and headed ministries like the Vocation Ministry and Catholics Returning Home. She also served as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, a member of various Bible study groups, the Good News Chorale (GNC), and the Cursillos in Christianity Arrangements are under the direction of Forest Lawn, Covina Hills, California.