DUMALAW si Pangulong Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. sa burol ni Migrant Workers Secretary Susan “Toots” Ople sa Heritage Memorial Chapels sa Taguig.

Pumunta rin sa burol sina dating Pangulo at incumbent Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco, at dating Senate President Manny Villar at misis nitong si Sen. Cynthia Villar.

Sinabi ni Pangulong Marcos na malaking kawalan sa bansa si Ople.

“It’s a very very sad news. I have lost a friend. The Philippines has lost a friend. Secretary Ople is a special person with a deep compassion really really for the people that she had cared for, mainly the migrant workers,” sabi ni Pangulong Marcos sa naunang pahayag nito.

“It’s a big loss, ang galing galing ni [she’s very good] Secretary Toots … she very much followed in the tradition of the Blas Ople tradition of excellence, of compassion,” sabi pa ng Pangulo.

“It is a great loss for all of us, it is great loss for all of us who called her a friend, it is a great loss to the Philippines, to the service that we know she could still have rendered,” dagdag pa nito.

Noong Hulyo ay nag-wellness break si Ople upang ipagluksa ang pagkamatay ng kanyang dalawang kapatid—sina dating Hagonoy mayor Felix “Toti” Ople at dating mamamahayag na si Blas Ople Jr. na kapwa pumanaw sanhi ng lung cancer.