ENTERTAINMENT industry pillar and Regal Films matriarch Lily Yu-Chu Monteverde — famously known as Mother Lily — passed away Sunday, August 4. She was 85.A statement released by her family announced that Monteverde died at 3:18 a.m.'Throughout her years, she had not only been a mother to her children but also the 'Mother' to so many generations of Filipino filmmakers who have helped define what Philippine cinema is today.
The Monteverde family requests prayers and asks that people cherish the memory of Mother Lily 'not only as a face of cinema but as the loving mother she truly was and will always be.'The Regal Entertainment Inc. matriarch's death comes only six days after her husband, Leonardo 'Remy' Monteverde, succumbed to pneumonia on July 29, following weeks of hospitalization. He was laid to rest on Saturday at the Heritage Memorial Park in Taguig City.