Eunice Pablo Guerrero-Cucueco

Eunice "Nesing" Guerrero-Cucueco (born Eunice Pablo Guerrero) was born on September 16, 1949 in Baler, Aurora. She died on February 12, 1991 at the age of 41. She completed her medical degree in Preventive Medicine at UERM. She worked as a professor there while completing her graduate degree in Public Health at the University of the Philippines (UP). Offered a scholarship at a university in Australia, she opted to stay. Nesing left the faculty at UERM and placed her doctoral classes at Ateneo de Manila University on hold to become a full-time mother to her four children.

After many years and impelled by the need to perform community service like her family before her, Nesing become a civil servant to her home province of Aurora. Despite losing the congressional race, Nesing eventually became the first lady Governor of Aurora. She won the gubernatorial race by a landslide.

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