Bulacan community paper publisher dies of COVID-19 complication

Josephine Bautista Reyes-Burgos, 59, publisher of community paper “News Core” in Bulacan died of COVID-19 complications on Thursday, Sept. 2 CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

BULAKAN, Bulacan—The publisher of a community newspaper in Bulacan province died of COVID-19 complications on Thursday (Sept. 2), relatives said.

Josephine Bautista Reyes-Burgos, 59, a native of Barangay Maysantol in this town, founded “News Core” in 2006, serving as its publisher until her death.

Burgos, an elder sister of Inquirer correspondent Carmela Reyes-Estrope, died while confined in a hospital in Caloocan City.

According to Estrope, her sister died of cardiac arrest due to COVID-19 complications.

Estrope described her sister, the middle of five children, as the “kindest among us” who learned to earn a living at a young age by selling mangoes she would find in their backyard.

Burgos supported her studies during college by working at the Department of Labor and Employment while their father, a journalist, and mother, a teacher, were supporting the family.

Burgos is survived by her husband Honorio Burgos and children Raiza Burgos-Ajes, a nurse based in New Zealand, and Henry Martin and Jhay Alvir Burgos.

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