AFTER six years of battling colon cancer, former beauty queen, the actress and TV host Rio Diaz-Cojuangco succumbed to the disease on Sunday 7:30 p.m. (4:30 a.m. Monday in Manila) at Saton Hospital in San Francisco, California.

Her husband, Rep. Charlie Cojuangco of Negros Occiden­tal, son of the billionaire-industrialist Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco, announced that her body would be cremated in the United States. Her ashes would be flown home shortly for a wake at Santuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, Makati City.

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