Yorac dies of kidney failure
Fe Zamora Inquirer News Service INQ7.net
FORMER Presidential Commission on Good Government chairperson Haydee Yorac died of kidney failure in Chicago on Tuesday morning, RP time.
Yorac's death was confirmed by her law partner Felicidad Aquino-Arroyo.
Arroyo said Yorac died around 5:30 a.m. at the St. Francis Hosipital in Chicago where she had been confined for a week. The cause of death was kidney failure as a result of cancer complications.
Arroyo said most members of Yorac's family was at her bedside when she died.
Yorac was 64.
Known for her fearlessness and feistiness, Yorac also sat as chairperson and commissioner of the Commission on Elections.
In a phone interview with INQ7.net, PCGG spokesman Nick Suarez said the the commission would hold a memorial service for Yorac.
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