{"id":27769,"date":"2014-02-17T17:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper2.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=27769"},"modified":"2014-02-17T17:30:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T09:30:46","slug":"ex-saipan-mayor-jesus-deleon-guerrero-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-saipan-mayor-jesus-deleon-guerrero-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Saipan mayor Jesus Deleon Guerrero, 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Saipan mayor Jesus \u201cGere\u201d Sablan Deleon Guerrero passed away on Friday morning, Valentine\u2019s Day, due to pancreatic cancer. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p>Deleon Guerrero\u2019s only wish was to return to the home he loved and he died as the helicopter was on its final descent onto Saipan from Guam, according to a family member.<\/p>\n<p>Deleon Guerrero served as Saipan mayor from 1990 to 1998.<\/p>\n<p>The family member said that Deleon Guerrero was diagnosed with cancer only last New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Viola Alepuyo told Saipan Tribune that she grew up in Deleon Guerrero and his wife\u2019s home and in the United States. Deleon Guerrero\u2019s wife is Alepuyo\u2019s mother\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n<p>Alepuyo said Deleon Guerrero was a mentor to her husband, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a great, wise man who we consulted on all that we did,\u201d Alepuyo said.<\/p>\n<p>Deleon Guerrero is survived by his wife, Victoria Alepuyo Deleon Guerrero. They have 10 children: Joseph Alepuyo Deleon Guerrero (deceased), Antonio Camacho (deceased), Juan Camacho, Juan A. Deleon Guerrero, Mariann V. Fernandez, Perdita DLG. Roberto, Anna R. Villagomez, Jesse A. Deleon Guerrero, Rose Marie A. Deleon Guerrero, and Ammalyn Victoria A. Deleon Guerrero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Saipan mayor Jesus \u201cGere\u201d Sablan Deleon Guerrero passed away on Friday morning, Valentine\u2019s Day,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,88],"class_list":["post-27769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-superior-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}