Veteran actress Mely Tagasa, best remembered for her 15-year-long role as the strict but endearing professor Liwayway Gawgaw Tapia or Miss Tapia in the hit '70s sitcom "Iskul Bukol” of Tito, Vic and Joey, passed away early Saturday morning.

She suffered a massive stroke and was comatose for a week before she was weaned off her respirator. The actress and screenwriter was 82.

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