Career
She established Aling Lucing"s, a restaurant in Angeles City, Pampanga in 1974. Her restaurant featured what has been said as a reinvented variant of sisig which soon became nationally famous. The popularity of her sisig had helped establish Angeles as the "Sisig Capital of the Philippines", and Cunanan herself was dubbed as the "Sisig Queen"
Lucia Cunanan was found bludgeoned to death in her Angeles City home with 10 stab wounds on April 16, 2008.
She was 80 years old.
Two days after her murder, local police filed parricide charges against her 85-year-old husband, Victorino Cunanan.