Maria Vilma Pansoy Dumoran

Maria Vilma Pansoy Dumoran September 18, 1970 - March 8, 2024 (53 years old). Maria Vilma died peacefully on March 8, 2024, at Corewell Beaumont Hospital Troy, Michigan, after a brief but fierce battle with metastatic breast cancer. Maria Vilma was born in San Isidro, Leyte, Philippines on September 18, 1970 to parents Diosdado and Maria Pansoy. She attended Tinago Elementary School, John F. Kennedy Memorial High School, and University of San Carlos, earning a bachelor's degree in Library Science. Maria Vilma's career includes a brief stint in St. Paul's Academy as school librarian, a 15+year stint in SunStar Cebu as newsroom librarian, a 5+year stint at Valeo Ireland as manufacturing personnel, and as teacher aide in St. Lawrence Catholic School since 2018 until her passing. Apart from her profession as librarian, Maria loves, and has a knack in, teaching the little ones, especially in reading. It doesn't take long before each child that comes under her tutelage falls in love with her. She has taught countless individual tutees while she was still in the Philippines. When she moved to the US in 2018, she felt so blessed that she was accepted by St. Lawrence Catholic School as teacher aide. She felt God so favored her that He put her into something she so greatly loves to do. Being at St. Lawrence was heaven-on-earth for her. At St. Lawrence School, she is known as "Mrs. Maria". There she learned the ability to convince the little ones to walk down the hallway so quietly the other classes wouldn't notice their little parade. She learned to turn kiddie chaos into calm and enthuse the little ones to sit properly and quietly. She was loved by her colleagues and students alike. To friends, Maria Vilma was known as 'Ate V'. To some younger friends in the circle, she was looked up to like a true big sister (Ate), and for the majority she was simply the smile magnet with a contagious laughter, a friend fun and pleasing to be with. In 1998, Maria Vilma met Nefran Dumoran as they both sang in the Christian Voices Choir at Redemptorist Church in Cebu City, Philippines. They married in December 2001. Asher was born to them in May 2005. The small family lived happily together among themselves and with friends and extended family. As a new family, they enjoyed the friendship of the Selda Uno neighborhood in Consolacion until they moved to Ireland in 2011 where she made plenty new friends, Filipinos and Irish alike. In 2018, the family moved to Michigan where she again made plenty new friends, both Filipinos and Americans alike. Wherever Maria Vilma goes, she makes new friends and a lasting friendship, including that of a short vacation in Germany. Maria Vilma and her husband continued to serve God by singing in the mass as members of St. Lawrence Music Ministry Choir. Maria Vilma was so dearly loved by her father, mother, brother, aunts/uncles, cousins, nephews/nieces, in-laws, friends, and last but not least, her grieving husband and daughter. For her husband, it is too hard to accept the suffering she had to endure and her eventual defeat unless he surrenders everything to God's plan. Thanks to the priests at Blessed Solanus Center and at St. Lawrence Church, Maria Vilma has been prepared spiritually to go back to Home, to her Creator. ---------- Maria's visitation opens on Thursday, March 14 from 3:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and on Friday, March 15 from 2:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. with a prayer service/eulogy service at 5:15 p.m. at the Wm. Sullivan & Son Funeral Home, 8459 Hall Road (3 blocks East of Van Dyke), Utica. A funeral mass will continue on Saturday, March 16 at St. Lawrence Catholic Church 44633 Utica Road, Utica, instate from 9:30 a.m. until the time of her mass at 10:00 a.m. Both Maria's visitations and funeral mass will be live streamed and the links will be posted as soon as we have them. Interment at St. Lawrence Cemetery, Utica. Please share a memory or tribute for Maria's family at www.SullivanFuneralDirectors.com Thursday's visitation stream: https://view.oneroomstreaming.com/index.php?data=MTcxMDI4OTc4MzI5OTg0MCZvbmVyb29tLWFkbWluJmNvcHlfbGluaw== Friday's visitation stream: https://view.oneroomstreaming.com/index.php?data=MTcxMDI5MDI2NDI5OTg0MiZvbmVyb29tLWFkbWluJmNvcHlfbGluaw== Saturday's funeral mass stream: https://www.facebook.com/STLUtica Please note- you do not need a Facebook account to watch. Stream will start right at service time.