Juan Mercado —CEBU JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTS PHOTO
CEBU CITY—Revered Cebuano journalist and newspaper columnist Juan “Johnny” L. Mercado died from pure causes on Wednesday, July 16, on the age of 94.
His former colleagues within the Cebu media, together with Cebu Residents-Press Council (CCPC) Govt Director Pachico Seares confirmed this on a Fb put up on Friday.
The CCPC recalled that when Mercado was requested to put in writing his occupation in his tax returns and different varieties, he would at all times write “journalist.”
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“The federal government has misplaced one taxpayer. Gone from the Cebu information media neighborhood, leaving an enormous void, who’s a very revered and beloved colleague and expensive good friend,” wrote Seares on behalf of CCPC, Cebu NewsWorkers Basis and Cebu Media Authorized Help.
Mercado who wrote a column for a number of years within the Philippine Every day Inquirer, Cebu Every day Information and SunStar Cebu, died peacefully and surrounded by his household, on his mattress at dwelling, based on Michelle So, former editor in chief of SunStar Cebu.
Mercado, whose 92-year-old spouse simply died final 12 months, was cremated and the inurnment was executed at Alliance of Two Hearts in Banawa, Cebu Metropolis on Friday at 10 am.
So mentioned it was his want to be cremated.
She recalled that when Mercado stopped writing for SunStar Cebu in December 2014, he not be contacted. Nonetheless, on July 15, his former colleagues within the paper received to go to him at his residence in Barangay Banawa right here after he requested his nurse to search for them.
The privilege of lengthy life
He wished to “contact base” with us—(that was his) time period if he wished to attach with any of us editors—(as a result of he knew) any minute now he could be leaving his earthly life. So we went—me, Cherry Ann Lim, Nini Cabaero, lawyer Jane Paredes, and ex-newsroom assistant Rosa Yumol—to his home,” So mentioned.
She mentioned that by then, the bedridden Mercado might not speak.
In keeping with her, they “introduced a priest who anointed him.”
“The one factor I bear in mind about him was at his eightieth birthday (2010), on the reception. He spoke in regards to the privilege of dwelling a protracted life, not everybody was that lucky,” recalled one other Cebu-based columnist Marit Stinus-Cabugon.
Born on Aug. 26, 1930, Mercado spent many years as a journalist, beginning as a reporter for now-defunct Southern Begin in Cebu within the Nineteen Fifties, incomes him not simply accolade for his work, but additionally a stint on the United Nations in New York.
Furthermore, his opinion columns for the Inquirer and the opposite publications had been consistently utilized by neighborhood newspapers and regional publications. He had obtained awards and recognitions, together with “Journalist of the 12 months” given by the Manila Rotary Membership in 1968; and quite a few recognitions from the Cebu Archdiocesan Mass Media Awards and different award-giving our bodies just like the Society of Publishers in Asia.
He gained the Globe Telecommunications’ Cebu Media Excellence Awards as “Columnist of the 12 months” in 2012; Excellent Alumnus in Journalism honor by the College of San Carlos; “Garbo sa Sugbo” plaque given by the Province of Cebu, amongst others.
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