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Natividad Dolores Quidato Sanglap Mallari
Natividad Mallari (née Sanglap) was a Filipino female freedom fighter and member of the underground resistance movement against the Japanese during World War II.

Early Years
Natividad was born on September 8, 1908 to Eliseo Jamero Sanglap and Julita Serra Sanglap of San Joaquin, Iloilo. Nati was the fourth of nine children who reached adulthood: Severo, Aurora, Vicente, Natividad, Geminiana, Eusebio, Paulita, Eliseo, Julita. Her father Eliseo was supposedly a great-grandson of Datu (Chief) Paiburong, one of the ten legendary datus who fled Borneo and came to the Panay in the 1300's. Eliseo was the Municipal President (now Municipal Mayor) of Miag-ao and resultantly, the former settlement of San Joaquin, which was then annexed to Miagao (see http://www.iloilo.gov.ph/municipality/san-joaquin).

Education
Nati graduated from the University of the Philippines in March 1932 with a bachelor of education degree and a double major in English and Library Science.

Personal Life
She married writer Ismael Villanueva Mallari (I.V. Mallari) in April 1932. Their daughter, Vita Araceli Mallari, was born in December of the same year. Two years later, Ismael and Nati separated.