TACLOBAN CITY 鈥� Former press secretary Tomas 鈥淏uddy鈥� Gomez III died while on a visit to Spain on Thursday, July 22.聽 He was 86.
鈥淲ith deep sorrow in our hearts, we announced the passing of Tomas 鈥淏uddy鈥� Gomez III, who left us on July 22, 2021, while doing the Camino to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain,鈥� said his daughter and Commission on Human Rights Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit in a post on Facebook.
Gomez, who served as press secretary in the Cabinet of late President Corazon 鈥淐ory鈥� Aquino from 1986 to 1989, was a native of Calbayog City in Samar.
Dumpit did not mention the cause of her father鈥檚 death.
Gomez also served as a consul to Hawaii from 1990 to 1992.
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