Esperanza Escolar Limjap Osmeña (December 18, 1894 – April 4, 1978) was the second wife of Philippine President

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and is considered the fourth

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Esperanza Limjap y Escolar was born in San Miguel,

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to Mariano Limjap y Nolasco and María Escolar y Carreón. She married Osmeña in on January 10, 1920 in San Miguel,

, two years after the death of Osmeña's first wife, Estefania Chiong Veloso.Sergio Osmeña and Esperanza Limjap's Marriage Certificate
/ref> The couple had three children: Ramón, Rosalina, and Victor. She became first lady upon the death of

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, when her husband succeeded to the presidency of the Philippine government-in-exile in the United States. However, while her husband was president-in-exile, she herself was still in the Philippines and remained there, during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. On 30 Oct. 1944,

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's forces rescued Mrs. Osmena and family from Baguio.Volckmann, R.W., 1954, We Remained, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., She died on April 4, 1978 in at

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due to

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. She was buried at

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in Santa Cruz,

on April 11, 1978.

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