Former mayor of Negros Occidental town dies of cancer | Inquirer News

Former mayor of Negros Occidental town dies of cancer

/ 08:29 PM January 04, 2023

A former mayor of Ilog town in Negros Occidental, passed away after a six-year battle with cancer at the Adventist Medical Center-Bacolod on Sunday, January 1.

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BACOLOD CITY — A former mayor of Ilog town in Negros Occidental passed away after a six-year battle with cancer at the Adventist Medical Center-Bacolod on Sunday, January 1.

Benigno “Boy” Gequillana, 72, had a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which attacks the body’s germ-fighting immune system, according to his son and Ilog Councilor Benigno “BG” Gequillana Jr.

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Boy, his son said, was brought to the hospital on December 31 after he was hit with pneumonia.

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Boy was mayor of Ilog from 1988 to 1998.

The former mayor was a pioneer of the football community of Ilog, a former director of the Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative, and an assistant treasurer of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines-Negros Occidental Council.

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His son said the wake will be at the Acropolis Gardens in Bacolod City until January 8, when Boy’s remains will be cremated.

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The urn containing his ashes will then be brought to Dancalan, Ilog, for a memorial service and will remain there for about three to four nights, after which it will be brought back to the Acropolis Gardens.

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