Yes! Magazine February 2009

Farewell TEXT:analynalcala&josEf. lacabaPHoTo:EMERsonsy www. pep. ph12 YES! aPRIl 2008 M ulti-awarded actor Johnny Delgado succumbed to lymphoma, or cancer of the lymph nodes, at 1:20 p. m. on November 19, 2009. He passed on peacefully in his Quezon City... More

Farewell TEXT:analynalcala&josEf. lacabaPHoTo:EMERsonsy www. pep. ph12 YES! aPRIl 2008 M ulti-awarded actor Johnny Delgado succumbed to lymphoma, or cancer of the lymph nodes, at 1:20 p. m. on November 19, 2009. He passed on peacefully in his Quezon City home, surrounded by family and close friends. He was 61. He is survived by his wife, director-actress Laurice Guillen, and their daughters, opera singer and theater actress Ana Feleo, and movie-TV actress Ina Feleo. Johnny was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2008, but further tests revealed that he had lymphoma. After his third round of chemotherapy, doctors declared that he was responding well to treatment and that 85 percent of his cancer cells were gone. He went through eight cycles of chemotherapy before he succumbed to his sickness. The veteran actor, Juan Marasigan Feleo in real life, comes from a distinguished lineage. His grandfather, Juan Feleo, after whom Johnny was named, was a pillar of the peasant movement fr Less