He was a man of learning. He kept himself posted on the world’s affairs by listening over his imported Westinghouse radio, subscribing to national papers and continuing personal contact with few knowledgeable people in San Carlos. One of his friends was Engr. Ramsey, a black Jamaican national who worked as an engineer at the San Carlos Sugar Milling and Company. The two would exchange banters talking in Spanish and English over a cup of coffee while smoking Havana cigar in the old house of Rafael.
Likewise the two daughters of Don Paco, Carmen and Rosario (Charing) were married to landed husbands coming from prominent families in Negros Occidental. Carmen married Don Juan Broce, a distinguished sugarcane planter and then mayor of San Carlos in the early years.
