Obituaries

Accident kills 3 ABC-5 crew members
Three ABC-5 network crew members died on the spot when their vehicle collided with a passenger bus in Pamplona, Camarines Sur last Aug. 13.

Senior reporter Anna Liza “Hazel” Richeta-Calimag, 37; cameraman Arnel Guiao, 42; and assistant cameraman Ismael “Maeng” Cabugayan, 37, were on their way back to Manila after their one-week coverage of the Mayon Volcano in Albay when the accident occurred.

The Nissan Frontier car used by the crew was totally wrecked as it swept under the bus when the vehicles collided.

An ABC-5 reporter for 11 years, Calimag had covered the labor, foreign affairs, and Malacañang beats. “She has always shown complete dedication in her work,” ABC-5 spokesperson Tera Daffon said.

Guiao and Cabugayan had been with ABC-5 for 14 and 5 years, respectively.

Former information minister, 76
Greg Cendaña, former information minister, died on Aug. 25 after suffering from cardiac arrest. He was 76.

Cendaña was information minister from 1980 to 1986 and was head of the government-owned station Channel 4 during the martial law years. He also headed the National Media Production Center and the Information Bureau, both of which are government offices.

Born on March 4, 1930, Cendaña was a native of San Nicolas, Pangasinan.

‘Iwo Jima’ photog, 94
American photojournalist Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic image of World War II soldiers raising an American flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, died of natural causes on Aug. 20. He was 94.

Considered as the most widely reproduced photo ever, Rosenthal’s photo also ranked in a 1999 New York University survey of the best 100 examples of journalism from the 20th century. Rosenthal took the photo for the Associated Press on Feb. 23, 1945.

The Pulitzer Committee in 1945 described the photo as “depicting one of the war’s great moments,” a “frozen flash of history.”

Born on Oct. 9, 1911 in Washington, D.C., Rosenthal took up photography as a hobby during the Great Depression. After his stint in the Associated Press, Rosenthal moved to San Francisco Chronicle, where he spent 35 years before retiring in 1981.

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