Boy Abunda’s Nanay Lising dies

Licerna Romerica Abunda, the mother of TV host Boy Abunda, passed away Sunday, December 1. She was 90.

The news of Licerna’s passing was confirmed by Abunda’s sister, Eastern Samar congresswoman Maria Fe Abunda, in a Facebook post.

The TV host had earlier confirmed that his mother had dementia and was hospitalized in October.

“I am grateful in both joy and pain. Grateful because kahit nasasaktan ako, I’m being given the chance by God to be the best mother to my mother and I’m being able to say thank you to her,” Abunda said during an episode of “The Bottomline.”

A funeral mass will be held at Arlington Memorial Chapels in Quezon City starting Monday, December 2