WRITERS DEATHS DURING THE MONTH

Reynaldo Duque, the Palanca multi-awardee writer, and educator Crispina Balderas Bragado have gone to their Creator this month. Crispina, from Bauang, La Union was the wife of Jose Asia Bragado, the nobelista. We did not know the cause of Crispina's death, but Rey died of kidney failure, according to Prescy Bermudez. Some writers who have gone to the great beyond: Jimmy Lucas, Art Padua, Greg Laconsay, Pel Alcantara, Meliton Brillantes, William Alvarado, Bagnos Cudiamat, Juan Quimba, Lina Lorenzo. They died of a ripe old age except Bagnos.