Rustico Orquita: One of the greatest little fighters

Before there was Manny Pacquiao, Alex John Banal, Bert Batawang and Dode Boy Penalosa, there was my grandfather Rustico Orquita. He died before his prime and so did his story, which is why I decided to honor him today and give you a piece of who I am. Bear in mind though that I am only going off the knowledge I've gained through my years of growing up because he died when my dad was still very young so we never got to meet him and I can't afford those genealogy sights to get his records, so if any family reading this knows any other info or need to correct me, let me know.

Rustico Orquita, born Rustico Yparraguirre was born in the Philippines in 1918. He came to America by stowing away on a freight boat when he was only 16 years old. Once in America, he made his way to Sacramento and married a Caucasian women and had two children with her. My family never met them or learned their names, but knew about them from my grandmother. Though he was married and had a family of his own now, he joined the United States Air Force and it was here that he began his professional boxing career. During his service, he got stationed back in the Philippines and met my grandmother, They fell madly in love and my grandpa promised her, he would go back to the states and divorce his wife, then come back to marry her; this is how our family came to be. As promised, he returned and married my grandmother and had many children with her.  Things could not of been going any better for my grandfather, he had a new wife, many children and he was well on his way to becoming one of the greatest fighters known around the world.  Unfortunately, while training in March of 1950, he suffered a massive cardiac arrest while jogging and ended both his career and life.

I have done an extensive search for anymore information that I can acquire about him or images I can find and below is what I found:

Rustico Orquita
Global ID	168987
sex	male
division	featherweight
country	Philippines
residence	Sacramento, California, USA
won 6 (KO 3) + lost 5 (KO 4) + drawn 4 = 15 rounds boxed 82 KO% 20

		date	Lb	opponent	Lb	W-L-D	last 6	location
		1947-02-26	120	Tirso Del Rosario	120	1-1-0		Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines	L	KO	6	12
	Philippines Games & Amusement Board (GAB) featherweight title
		1947-01-19		Tirso Del Rosario		0-1-0		Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines	L	KO	9
	Philippines Games & Amusement Board (GAB) featherweight title
		1942-07-04		Nat Corum		8-15-8		Stockton, California, USA	D	PTS	10	10
		1942-03-09	123	Elwood Romero	119	10-13-6		Sacramento, California, USA	L	TKO	6
		1942-02-16	120	Jackie Jurich	118	53-11-8		Sacramento, California, USA	W	TKO	8	10
	referee: Frankie Carter
		1942-02-02	124	Jackie Jurich	120	53-11-7		Sacramento, California, USA	D	PTS	10	10
		1941-11-21	128	Angelo Rogers		7-3-3		L-st Arena, Sacramento, California, USA	W	PTS	4	4
		1941-09-08	126	Frankie Jonas		1-1-1		Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA	D	PTS	4	4
		1941-09-02	125	Freddie Encinas	123	19-13-10		Ryan's Auditorium, Fresno, California, USA	W	KO	1	4
	referee: Frankie Carter
		1941-08-19	124	Danny Torres	127	3-12-3		Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA	W	PTS	4
		1941-07-21		Angelo Rogers		7-2-3		Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA	W	PTS	4	4
		1940-06-17		Frankie Cervente		15-2-6		Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA	L	PTS	6	6
		1940-02-26	124	Frankie Cervente	120	11-1-4		Coliseum Bowl, San Francisco, California, USA	W	TKO	2	4
		1940-02-21	124	Ray Martinez	122	1-1-0		National Hall, San Francisco, California, USA	L	KO	4	4
		1939-12-12	125	Jessie Quintana	126	1-0-0		Civic Auditorium, San Jose, California, USA	D	PTS	4	4

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information obtained from http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=168987&cat=boxer

Below is a picture a family member found for my dad and might be the only picture ever known in existence, unless someone out there has a photo of my lolo...if so, I would love to get a copy for my family.