HE MARRIED AN ILOCANA UPON RETURNING FROM MOSCOW

My brother Jorge C. Bocobo III aka "Jory," was an exchange student who studied in the Lomonosov University in the old Soviet Union. This was in 1971. When he returned to Manila straight out of Lenin's Kremlin, he pursued his previous girlfriend Leida Valdez of the Batac, Ilocos Norte clan and a daughter of Casimiro "Tata Miro" Valdez and Lucia "Nanay Lucing" Najera Mangapit Valdez. Seen in this photo in our home in San Lorenzo Village, Makati City is Mayor Nemesio Yabut, a friend of my father officiating the wedding rites. Nanay Lucing looks intently from the background.