Leonor Navarro Cadayona was born on September 23, 1923 to Marceliano Valencia Cadayona, a farmer and Raymunda nee Navarro, a Public Health Nurse. She is the youngest and only living of four siblings: Ambrosia, Felisa and Ramon.

She is a graduate of Paete Elementary school in 1937; Laguna Provincial High School in Sta. Cruz in 1941; Mary Johnston Hospital and North General Hospital School of Nursing in 1946; she holds a B.S. Education degree from Far Eastern University, 1953.

A consistent scholar, she pursued her Certificate in Public Health at the U.P. Institute of Hygiene in 1956; Masters of Arts in Nursing Administration, Supervision & Consultation at Columbia University, New York City in 1959, Health Planning & Quantitative Methods in Health Practice Research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, 1980.

She worked as a surgical and operating room nurse at St. Luke's Hospital, St. Paul’s Clinic and the De Ocampo Memorial Clinic and in 1951 as a ship Nurse for the Muslim Pilgrims.

In 1953, she worked as Public Health Nurse in Subic, Zambales. In 1955, she was named Regional Nursing Supervisor covering Zamboanga Provinces, Misamis Oriental, Zamboanga City and Lanao Provinces, Tawi-Tawi, group of Islands until 1965.

In 1972, she was selected Technical Officer of the Operations Research Study in the Philippines. In 1981 she was promoted Supervising Health Planning, Officer Department of Health until her retirement in 1983.

Leonor, now a retiree praises the Lord for the 75 years of single blessedness. She remembers her early years when she rides calesa along with her mother, Raymunda, in heavily flooded provincial roads to render service in Paete and distant towns.

To her nephews and nieces: Yolly, Estella, Emil, Sonia, Noel, Sonny, Jessie, Raul, Marina, Celia, Tetet, and Arcel, she wishes to pass on what she learned from her parents: Honesty, hard work, value of time, orderliness and the holy fear of the lord.

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