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RIP Jaime Picornell of Cebu Philippines

August 16, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

 l‑r: Ching­gay Utzur­rum, Jaime Picor­nell, Cecil­ia Brainard

I am shar­ing pic­tures that include my friend Jaime Picor­nell who unfor­tu­nate­ly died of Car­diac arrest (Covid relat­ed) on Mon­day August 16, 2021, 2 p.m., Cebu Philip­pine time. His fam­i­ly and friends and I are very, very sad over this loss.
I knew Jaime all my life, because Cebu in the 1950s-1960s was small and fam­i­lies knew one anoth­er. I spent more time with him dur­ing my teenage years. He was close to my broth­er and his wife (Jess and Tere­si­ta Manguer­ra), and was also very close to my sis­ter Ana Manguer­ra and cousin Chick­ie Fer­aren. He was also Mama’s dear friend. He used to vis­it us for merien­da or din­ner and regale us (in the most ani­mat­ed way) with sto­ries about the per­son­al­i­ties of Cebu. He was a great sto­ry­teller, writer, teacher, busi­ness­man, and he also served as the Con­sul of the Span­ish Con­sulate in Cebu.
He was a stead­fast friend, whom we could call on at any time to chat or go out with, or to cry on his shoulder.
When he was young, he used to send us into hys­ter­ics laugh­ing at this sto­ries. He mel­lowed out as he got old­er but he always had sto­ries. He loved sto­ries, espe­cial­ly about Cebu. He wrote about Cebu and the peo­ple of Cebu in his columns. He was in fact a kind of his­to­ri­an for Cebu, and if you need­ed any infor­ma­tion about Cebuano his­to­ry or per­son­al­i­ty, he could give it to you.
I have many sto­ries about Jaime, and I’ll have to write some­thing longer lat­er on. All I want to say now is that I am heart­bro­ken as his fam­i­ly and friends are. We will miss him. Rest in Christ’s peace, Jaime.
PS: The pic­tures date from 2019 to as ear­ly as 1969.

Seat­ed l‑r: Ter­ry Manguer­ra, Cecil­ia Brainard, Jaime Picornell; 

Stand­ing l‑r; Louie Nacor­da, Gavin Bagares, Guest, Jobers Bersales

clock­wise from l: Nina Briones Blan­co, Cecil­ia Brainard, Ching­gay Utzur­rum, Ter­ry Manguer­ra, Tina Escano Unchuan, Chona Bernad, Cecil­ia Picor­nell, Jaime Picor­nell, Mar­ilou Chiongbian

seat­ed l‑r: Ching­gay Utzur­rum, Ter­ry Manguer­ra, Inday Blanco;
stand­ing l‑r: Cecil­ia Brainard, Jaime Picor­nell, Chona Bernad
l‑r: Cecil­ia Brainard, Jaime Picor­nell, Kari­na Bolasco
l‑r: Jaime Picor­nell, Cecil­ia Brainard, Helen Misa, Ed Misa
1969 pho­to, l‑r: Bing Velas­co- Jacala, Cecil­ia Brainard, Ana Manguer­ra, Man­ny Gon­za­lez, Guest; stand­ing: Guests, Stand­ing far right is Jaime Picornell
Tags: Cebu. Cebuano, Philip­pines, soci­ety, Cebuano, Cebu his­to­ry, Cebu per­son­al­i­ties, Cebu society

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: #cebusociety

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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