By FROILAN GALLARDO
CAGAYAN DE ORO- After surviving a near-fatal stroke years ago, eminent Kagayanon writer-director and entertainment journalist Nestor Torre Jr., succumbed to serious complications of the COVID-19 Tuesday morning, his friends and relatives said.
Family friend historian Nanette Roa said Torre, 78 years old, died of heart complications in Sta. Ana Hospital in Manila Tuesday.
Torre was one of the 382 COVID-19 deaths nationwide reported by the Department of Health Tuesday.
Roa said Torre got infected from a cook who came and prepares his food in his house everyday.
She said`earlier, Torre suffered from a stroke in February 2018 and was undergoing rehab and theraphy.
Torre blazed a career that spanned five decades writing musicals; directing movies and TV shows in the Philippine entertainment industry.
His career jump-started when he directed the late night TV show, “Two for the Road”.
Torre wrote incisive columns with the Philippine Daily Inquirer where he was its Saturday special editor and entertainment columnist.
He was a professor at the University of the Philippines for Broadcast Media and later earned a master’s degree in journalism, radio and television from the Northwestern University in Illinois.
Torre was the eldest son of Cagayan de Oro harbor pilot Capt. Nestor Torre and Isabelita Urbina-Torre.
He graduated in grade school, high school and college from Xavier University before he went to Illinois.
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