Cecile Afable: A Baguio Giant

Cecile Afable, the second of the Three Witches of Baguio to succumb to the Grim Reaper, is no more.  Thus passes a legendary figure, a City High fixture at reunions.

Cecile Cariño Afable was the first female Igorot to attend UP Diliman.  She had a long-standing column in the Baguio Midland Courier, In and Out of Baguio, and has reviled and thrown verbal acid at the enemies of Baguio’s environment.

True to form, she had her heart attack at the Pines Doctors Hospital, and will be buried in Ibaloi style among her clansmen and women, in a pine box of which she had selected and stored the lumber for.

Farewell.