By KATHLEEN T. OKUBO
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She wrote 30 last Thursday at eight in the morning, and yet we remember she promised to be with us only as long as she is able. We can but comfort ourselves that she is now among friends, relatives and her Maker raising a toast to a life well-lived. She was so preoccupied it seems by her schedules and tasks at hand and it must have escaped her consciousness that the body also gets tired and may give up.

At 67, Nora Linda, better known to us simply as Baboo Mondoñedo, a hardworking friend and colleague. The fashion model, mother, grandma, activist, chef, environmentalist, driver, poet, painter, journalist, columnist, philanthropist, a jolly glass-mate and one strong and passionate adopted Ibaloy woman.

It was the first national elections after the fall of the Marcos reign in the mid eighties that I got to work with the Baboo and Maita (Gomez) duo, setting up a chapter of the women’s group Womb in Baguio. I imagine they are bonding around wherever they are now with Baguio’s three witches, women rights advocates who have gone ahead too, clinking their glasses. Cheers!

We do remember

The members and officers of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Baguio-Benguet Chapter extend their sincere condolences to the Family: Tootsie and Sonny for the loss of their mother and the grandmother of their three children – Baboo Mondonedo.

We shall miss her and remember her for all her contribution to raising the quality, ethical standards, skills and participation of the local journalists, writers, artists and broadcasters in the local media, to effect change for a better society. Thank you very much too for sharing her and her home with us.

From NUJP-BB: officers and members (former officers: Artemio Dumlao, Frank Cimatu, Day Caluza, Rima Opinia, Arthur Allad-iw; present directorate: Sly Quintos, Malen Catajan, Kim Quitasol, Ofelia Empian, Jessa Polonio, March Fianza, and Kathleen T. Okubo). # nordis.net