Sotero G Madarang was born on 22 April 1903, in San Antonio, Zambales, Philippines. He married Lola Lee Hendrix on 10 July 1974, in Tulare, California, United States. He immigrated to San Francisco, California, United States in 1928 and lived in Diamond Township, Haskell, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. He died on 14 September 1974, in Ivanhoe, Tulare, California, United States, at the age of 71.
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Filipino: from darang, a word which in various languages of the Philippines means ‘to be exposed to the heat of coals or flame’, + the adjectival affix ma-. Figuratively, madarang is used to describe someone who is ‘audacious’.
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