Lina Flor

Lina Flor died of a heart attack on February 11, 1976. Numerous people, including her fans, co-workers, and others came at her wake; while many of her colleagues spoke and wrote about her death, constantly referring to her "goodness and generosity, her thoughtfulness and graciousness, truly a life lived for others."

In the final years of her life, Flor, although always sickly and frail, continued to push herself into honing her craft. In 1972, Sparklers for the Day was published. Sparklers contained a day-to-day listings of events such as birthdays, wedding and anniversaries, etc. of prominent Filipinos. Letty Jimenez Magsanoc, then a young journalist, commented that Sparklers “feels intimate and personal and flipping through its pages seems snooping through someone else’s datebook.”

During this time, Flor began writing radio soap operas. In 1949, Flor’s Gulong ng Palad aired over DZRH, and changed the face of radio programming. Gulong ng Palad is considered to be the most popular daytime series in radio history.

During this time, she also started writing short stories in English. In 1934, Flor published her first short story titled, “Big Sister.” The story was said to have been "influenced by a painting of a young girl preening before a mirror. “Big Sister” and eventually “Family Album” and “Grandmother Muses” landed in Jose Garcia Villa's annual Honor Roll."

Carolina Flores-Trinidad or Lina Flor (October 6, 1914 – February 11, 1976) was a writer from the Philippines. Writer of the hit radio drama Gulong ng Palad, she was also a "society columnist, bilingual fictionist, scriptwriter, biographer and lyricist, as well as a cartoonist, an actress, even a journalism teacher."