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PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — BRAVING inhospitable weather, people from all walks of life joined the funeral procession of President Corazon Aquino yesterday to the Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque City where she was to be laid to rest beside her husband Sen.

Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr.

At 11:30 a.m. Mrs. Aquino’s casket was brought to the waiting flat-bed truck from inside the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros where necrological rites for the late president were held.

Tens of thousands of people had visited the cathedral to file past the open coffin containing Aquino’s body ahead of the funeral rites.

Teresita Devantes, 73, queued for 15 hours outside the cathedral on Tuesday before she got her turn to pass by her idol’s open brown wooden casket at midnight.

”I’m really tired but I’m happy to be here,” she said.Wearing a yellow headband and a dress with a yellow floral design, the old woman told AFP she would accompany the cortege as far as she could.

Around 15,000 peopl