I will miss Jane.
That's how I called Jaclyn Jose by her real name Jane Guck, from her full name Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck, a daughter of Angeles City in Pampanga where she grew up.
It was in Clark Air Base where her US serviceman dad (of German descent) worked.
According to Wikipedia, Jane's dad left her and her mom Rosalinda Santa Ana when the future actress was just four years old.
Wikipedia also mentioned that Jane was born in Angeles City but some accounts said she was born in San Juan City.
This I didn't bother to verify with Jane when she was still alive because of information overload about her which included interviews, updates on her professional work, details on her multimedia assignments, recalls on past encounters with her relative to write-ups I would do about her and other biographical notes on her that needed to be sorted out and deposited in my data bank.
Or I might have asked her, her birthplace forty two years ago when she was introduced to me by the late komiks editor, movie columnist, talent manager and line producer Rino Fernan Silverio but I might have forgotten it.
There are pieces of information, big and small, too many to remember about stars.
Rino was Jaclyn's older sister, actress Veronica Jones' manager in the late 70s.
Anyway, I would indeed miss Jane's sweetness by way of her slimy voice, the same tone of her monotonous vocal delivery on screen she was famous for.
Even if Jaclyn and I had not seen each other too often, I could sense a mutual care.
But when we would see each other, there was depth and longing albeit limited time.
Jane couldn't forget me because I was very close to her especially when she was doing "White Slavery," the modest but game-changing film written by now National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts Ricky Lee, directed by another National Artist for Film Lino Brocka and produced by Special People Productions, a movie outfit owned by one of my mentors, Kuya (a term of endearment to an older brother by blood or affinity) Boy C. de Guia, the still missing entertainment journalist, teacher, TV host, star builder, talent manager and celebrated and prolific past president of the Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC).
During shooting lulls of the movie, Jane and I would always talk, candidly or in interviews.
I was and still am officially part of Special People Productions being in the credits not only as publicist but as incorporator as well.
When Kuya Boy line produced "Macho Dancer" for Viva Films, Jaclyn could never be canceled by its director, Brocka.
Jane was my bet, pet.
I couldn't pass up paying my last respects as her ashes laid in state at the Arlington Memorial Chapels in Araneta Avenue because she was dear to me.
Jaclyn, according to her daughter Andi Eigenmann, died of myocardial infarction or a heart attack.
Her ashes were inurned at the Garden of the Divine Word in E. Rodriguez Avenue in Quezon City.
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