Francisco "Kikoy" Miranda Morelos- Writer, Newspaperman and Educator
Francisco "Kikoy" Miranda Morelos (2 Apr 1900- 17 Aug 1994) Educator, prolific writer and columnist of the post war (1947) Republic Daily and The Freeman covering political and social issues and events. He was married to Otilia Morales (1904-1983). His brother Marcos M. Morelos was the municipal president of Cebu in 1937 and appointed by President Manuel Roxas to the new municipal board of Cebu after the war. Marcos married Otilia's sister, Francisca Morales. Their son Mario married Trinidad Alvarez , a well known journalist, and daughter of Don Jose Alvarez, a wealthy rancher and landowner from Bohol and a highly respected Cebu businessman. Don Jose's family bought and occupied the Jesuit House 1730 now a museum owned and managed by the family of Jimmy Sy. (Life in Old Parian, Conception Briones, page 29) Here he writes about the 1977 National Referendum and the wedding of his nephew Don Morales (son of Avelino Morales , his wife's elder brother) with...