Palace condoles with family of PAL Holdings president Lucio ‘Bong’ Tan Jr.

Malacañang condoled with the family of billionaire Lucio Tan’s son and namesake who passed away due to brain herniation. 

Lucio “Bong” Tan Jr., president of PAL Holdings Inc., died on Monday. He collapsed during a basketball game in Mandaluyong during the weekend.

“The Office of the President expresses its deep condolences and heartfelt sympathies to the Tan family, especially to Mr. Lucio Tan, his wife and his children, on the untimely demise of Mr. Bong Tan at the age of 53,” presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said.

Panelo recalled Bong Tan as a “humble person, with a serious mien but with a ready smile to whomsoever he met in social events and official functions.”

“Given his social stature, he never threw his weight around and [was] always ready to lend his hand to anyone who approached him for assistance,” the Palace official noted.

Bong Tan was “a good friend, a kind-hearted brother to his siblings, a loving and dutiful son to his parents, and an efficient and competent corporate man,”  Panelo said.

“As family, friends and colleagues pay tribute to the life of Mr. Bong Tan, we fervently ask the Almighty to grant him eternal repose and pray that perpetual light shine upon him as he rests in happiness and peace,” Panelo said. —VDS, GMA News