APOLONIA ESTILO

1926 - 2021

Apolonia Encarnacion  Estilo, MD  
Aka Poñi, passed away peacefully surrounded by loving family in McLean, VA on Monday, October 18, 2021, at the age of 95. She was born in the Philippines on February 9, 1926, the ninth child of Pastor and Jacinta Vales Encarnacion of Santa Isabel, Kawit, Cavite. Dr. Estilo graduated medical school in 1953 from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. Ahead of her time and paving the way for women physicians, she left for the US after medical school to intern at St. Vincent's Hospital in Jacksonville, FL. Dr. Estilo then moved to Washington, DC and completed a residency in anesthesiology at Georgetown University Medical Center in 1956. She completed a second residency in pediatrics at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City in 1959. Dr. Estilo returned to the Philippines and joined the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of the East Medical School in Quezon City, Manila, where she met her husband, Dr. Bernardo Solis Estilo. They married in 1961, and emigrated to Albany, NY where Dr. Estilo worked as Chief Pediatric Resident at St. Peter's Hospital in 1962. While in Albany, she completed a research fellowship in Cystic Fibrosis at Albany Medical Center and simultaneously started a family. After living briefly in New Haven and Brooklyn, Drs. Estilo settled in Howard Beach, Queens in 1974 where they raised their family. They were active parishioners at St. Helen Roman Catholic Church where their four children attended elementary school. Dr. Estilo was predeceased by her parents and all her siblings as well as her husband Bernardo, aka Bernie, a trained cardiothoracic surgeon and emergency room physician who passed away in 1993. Dr. Estilo worked as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, winning teaching awards before her retirement in 1994. After leaving Howard Beach, Dr. Estilo lived briefly in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey from 2004 to 2007 where she joined the parish of St. Gabriel the Archangel in Saddle River, NJ, and participated in the Women's Cornerstone Retreat. Dr. Estilo then moved to McLean, Virginia and became a parishioner of Saint Luke Roman Catholic Church in 2007. Dr. Estilo worked as an active volunteer for her parish community until the young age of 93. Dr. Estilo is survived by her daughters, Karen Estilo (John) Owczarski of McLean, VA, Michelle Estilo (Michael) Kaiser of Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, Jeanne Estilo (Kenneth) Widerka of New York, NY, her son, Alvin (Aileen Estavillo) Estilo of Monroe Township, NJ, and her 12 grandchildren. She is also survived by numerous cousins, nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and nephews, and great grand-nieces and nephews who will also miss her dearly.Visitation will be held at Money and King Funeral Home, 171 W. Maple Ave., Vienna, VA on Friday, October 29 from 5 to 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Luke Catholic Church, 7001 Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA on Saturday, October 30 at 11 a.m. Interment will be at St. Gertrude Cemetery in Colonia, NJ on Monday, November 1 at 11 a.m. Memorial contributions may be made in honor of Dr. Estilo to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine, the American Heart Association, or to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.   www.moneyandking.com