Former Ilocos Norte vice governor succumbs to heart attack; Marcos family spokesman dies of aneurysm

By Leilanie G. Adriano

Staff reporter

Batac City—Former Ilocos Norte Vice Governor Mariano R. Nalupta Jr., 69, a pillar of the Nalupta clan in the province, died from a series of heart attacks at the Philippine Heart Center in Manila on early Tuesday, September 2.

The former president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines first served as congressman of Ilocos Norte’s second district for five years from 1987 to 1992 and a three-term vice governor from 1992 to 2001.

Mr. Nalupta is survived by wife Elena Marders-Nalupta, also a three-term (2004-2013) provincial board member and a former mayor of Batac, and four children namely: Ronald Allan Nalupta, current vice mayor of Batac, Myra Nalupta-Barba, presiding judge of Municipal Trial Court and Cities-Branch 1 in Laoag, lawyer and former National Youth Commissioner Richard Alvin Nalupta, and SK Federated president and Mariano Francisco Nalupta III, chairperson of Barangay 2 Ablan, Batac City.

Meanwhile, a staunch Marcos ally and family spokesman Otilio “Lito” Gorospe also died on September 1 in a hospital in Manila due to aneurysm. He was 78. Mr. Gorospe last served as media officer of then Ilocos Norte Governor, now Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.

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