BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines – The families of nine of the 10 nursing graduates who died in last Sunday’s hotel fire in Cagayan will be spending Christmas for the last time with their departed loved ones.
Meanwhile, five members of the Fondevilla family, which owned the ill-fated Bed and Breakfast Pension House in Tuguegarao City, were laid to rest the other day.
Buried were couple Norman, 32, and Amybelle Fondevilla, 30, who was two-and-a-half months’ pregnant; Norman’s sister Mildred, 28, and her children Karylle, 12 and Joshua, five.
Among the other fatalities, only Romualdo Respicio had been laid to rest.