THE family of Ulysses Tanigue, the former San Sebastian College star and Purefoods guard who passed away recently due to a lingering illness, is in dire need of financial help.
This was relayed by Frank Gusi, retired athletic director of San Sebastian College, where Tanigue used to play in the 1990s and who is now Perpetual Help’s NCAA Management Committee representative, yesterday after the late guard’s wife, Emelyn Tanigue, intimated that their family is neck-deep in debt.
“They desperately need money because of the bills that mounted when Buboy (Tanigue) was hospitalized because of leukemia, they desperately need help,” said Gusi in Filipino yesterday.
Gusi pleaded to Tanigue’s friends to send in assistance via Emelyn’s Land Bank Puerto Branch in Cagayan de Oro with account number 3537-0196-29.
“For those with generous hearts, please help Buboy’s family,” said Gusi.
Tanigue was best remembered as the starting guard of the San Sebastian team that won a five-peat feat from 1993-97. It was a team that also included Romel Adducul, Banjo Calpito, Brixter Encarnacion and Jasper Ocampo.
He made the pros with Purefoods but didn’t last long due to personal matters and went on to suit up in the defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association and some small leagues.
Tanigue, who was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010, threw his hat to coaching when he was tapped as an assistant by then San Sebastian coach Rodney Santos three seasons ago.
He was 43.