Please Help Honor Alice Bulos

Our beloved Alice Peña Bulos passed away on Friday, Oct. 21 at 2:33 pm, at Seton Hospital in Daly City surrounded by immediate family and friends.

Please help us honor Alice Bulos by helping her family defray Memorial Services, Celebration of Life Services and Funeral. And any funds remaining, family will determine ways to continue her legacy.

Alice Peña Bulos was born on March 31, 1930, in the Philippines. She completed a Masters Program in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, where she later chaired the Department of Sociology. She married Gallardo Bulos in 1967. In 1970, she began dividing her time between Manila and San Francisco, where she was conducting research on the social adjustment and integration of Filipino immigrants in America. In 1972, she permanently moved to the United States with her husband and daughter.

Alice has been a leader in the movement to educate and empower the Filipino community. After experiencing the struggles of being immigrants in America, she began to become more involved in community activism. She and her husband, a lawyer from the University of the Philippines, organized the Fil-America Grassroots Movement to involve Filipinos in the political process and as active participants in the broader community.

As an active volunteer, she has served as a board member of the Bayanihan Community Center, founder and former President of Thomasians, U.S.A., Vice-Chair of the California Fil-Am Democratic Caucus, President of the San Mateo Fil-Am Council and the San Mateo Fil-Am Democratic Club. She has also served as a board member of the State and Regional Advisory Councils or State Education Superintendent Bill Honig, the Golden State Regional Center on Mental Disabilities, the San Mateo Headstart Program, The Filipinos in America Foundation, and the National Asian Pacific Democratic Council.

Alice has also been active in many women's organizations. She was active in the development of the Sacramento Asian Pacific Women's Network, Pacific Asian American Women's Bay Area Coalition and a national organization, the Fil-Am Women's Network. (FAWN).

In 1986, she was appointed to the San Mateo Health Commission and was also appointed the Regional Chairman on Asian Pacific Affairs for the former 11th Congressional District U.S. Congressman, Tom Lantos. In 1995, she was appointed to join former President Bill Clinton's White House Conference on the Aging.

In recognition of her many contributions to the community, she was also named "Woman Warrior of the Year" by the Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition, Asian Foundation for Community Development, received the "Outstanding Leadership and Service Award" from the California Asian Pacific Democratic Council, one of the "100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the U.S. Award", and the "Bayanihan Award" in 2015 from the Filipino American Democratic Caucus.

Alice will be honored and remembered by all she has touched, especially by her daughter: Elizabeth Bulos Ramilo, her sisters: Lourdes Peña Reyes & Zenaida Peña Villaviza, her grandchildren: Charity, Charles, and Clarke, Socorro, her great-grandchildren: Noah, Aubrey, Penelope, and her family in the Philippines. She doesn't leave behind anything, but passes on (Pamana) a vision and leadership as an exemplary Filipina for others to continue the development of our Filipino community.