RAPPLER EXCLUSIVE: 'Words can’t express how broken we feel. My dad is so heartbroken because he loved my mom so much. They were partners in everything,' says daughter Kelsey Furigay. Read this in-depth piece by Michelle Abad:
Rose leaves behind her twins and her husband, current Lamitan Mayor Roderick “Oric” Furigay.
At around 2:30 pm, Hannah called Kelsey, saying the guards allowed the family to go inside the campus without verifying the guest list they filled up prior to the event. Kelsey repeatedly called her father with a single question on loop: What’s happening? “Hannah, Hannah, your mom…critical. Critical,” was what Kelsey could make out from her father’s voice. He then told her to proceed to a certain hospital.
“I just fell to the floor. I fell, and people were holding me, and my knees, I couldn’t even stand. I couldn’t believe it. I thought it was Hannah, the whole way I thought it was her. And then it was my mom. And I didn’t even have a chance to process it,” she added. While Hannah was in the operating room, Kelsey paced back and forth, still in the high heels she put on for Hannah’s graduation.
Kelsey saw her parents’ marriage as “the definition of eternal love.” The way that Rose and Roderick were partners in the family, Kelsey said she and Hannah were like partners, too. They were by each other’s sides in the big and small things in life – from studies, relationships, to fashion and beauty. They were each other’s emergency contacts.
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