Dead for sixty-four days already, unburied British national George William Dawson was finally “freed†from funeral debt and laid to his eternal rest at Dampas cemetery here Friday afternoon.His burial came exactly after two months and four days since his death last November 28, 2007. His burial finally relieved his young Filipina fiancée of long, unspeakable grief.
Dawson’s would-have-been-wife, Jeaneth Piquero of Candijay, Bohol, Philippines witnessed in deep silence a priest’s officiating of the last rite to his burial in a land half-a-planet from his foreign home.
Piquero, who is just 18, and his family profoundly thanked Rep. Edgar Chatto and Rep. Adam Relson Jala for facilitating the release of Dawson’s cadaver from the Coop Funeral Homes and its burial.
Dawson died of diabetic mellitus last November 28---when Christmastime was ushered in--- after weeks of costly confinement in a local hospital.
His cadaver could not be released from the funeral parlor unless the fees for embalming and other services would be settled.
Dawson’s remains had thus been held at the funeral home, the dead incurring an accumulated debt of over P110,000.
Piquero had to e-mail to Dawson’s family in the United Kingdom for the possible transport of his remains back home or burial here in Tagbilaran City.
The grieving girl was outrightly refused assistance.
With her mother, Piquero sought assistance from the local media, which led them to Chatto.
Chatto had his men in Manila office personally bringing the case of the decomposing Dawson to the British Embassy.
There, it was found out that Dawson had a dual citizenship as a British and at the same time an American.This hindered his surviving fiancée from getting any assistance from either embassy for the disposal of Dawson’s corpse.
The First District congressman coordinated with the office of Rep. Jala to grant the dead peace.
Piquero who hails from Candijay is a constituent of Cong. Jala’s district.
She was personally accompanied by Chatto’s staff Anthony Damalerio to Jala’s father, ex-Rep. Eladio Jala, on Tuesday since the young Jala was in Manila.
The two solons offered as guarantors for the release of the foreigner’s remains from the funeral home while their aids would still be processed thru the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Piquero and her family also thanked the Church-provided caretaker of the Dampas cemetery who coordinated with barangay captain Fredison Ingles.
Dawson and Piquero stayed together for about eight months in Booy here and planned their marriage until his death did them part. -
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