Family, friends remember Cory Aquino on fifth death anniversary - Inquirer.net

By Julliane Love De Jesus |INQUIRER.net

12:57 pm | Friday, August 1st, 2014

REMEMBERING CORY A truck bearing the casket of Corazon Aquino passes through a crowd of supporters during her funeral in Manila on Aug. 5, 2009, four days after her death. More than 100,000 mourners braved heavy rain to honor the former President, heroine of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino III and three of his sisters attended a mass at the Manila Memorial Park in Sucat, Paranaque to commemorate the fifth death anniversary of their mother and former president Corazon C. Aquino, according to accounts on Twitter.

Aquino, Ballsy Aquino-Cruz, Viel Aquino-Dee, Kris Aquino and other members of the first family, were joined by Cabinet officials and the President’s political allies in a mass led by Father Catalino Arevalo, a family friend of the Aquinos.

Among the Cabinet secretaries who attended were Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, Health Secretary Enrique Ona, Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr., Rehabilitation Czar Panfilo Lacson and Senate President Franklin Drilon.

In Manila, Mayor Joseph Ejercito Estrada offered flowers before the Cory Aquino Memorial Shrine along Roxas Boulevard beside her husband, Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.’s statue.

It can be recalled that in 2001, Mrs. Aquino was among the political leaders who supported the ouster of Estrada for graft and corruption.

Mrs. Aquino died of colon cancer on Aug. 1, 2009.

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