After being mistakenly diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium, she resigned from her pre-medical education, leaving with an Associate of Arts degree.
[citation needed] Her youngest daughter was a stewardess for Saudi Arabian Airlines, and was part of the Flight 163 crew on August 19, 1980, when an in-flight fire forced the aircraft to land in Riyadh.
Alfon died on December 27, 1983, following a heart attack suffered on-stage during the Manila Film Festival Awards Night.
The Veronicans are recognized as the first group of Filipino writers to write almost exclusively in English and were formed prior to the World War II.
Alfon was a regular contributor to Manila-based national magazines, having several stories cited in Jose Garcia Villa’s annual honor rolls.
In other stories, Alfon is still easily identifiable in her first-person reminiscences of the past: evacuation during the Japanese occupation; estrangement from a husband; life after the war.
This device of separating herself as narrator from the other characters is contained within the larger strategy of "distantiation" that of the writer from her strongly autobiographical material.
She could write about a day on the farm or a picnic with friends or a poor laundry woman wishing that her life were different because she was being abused by her mistress.