{"id":58896,"date":"2022-07-15T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/niceto-nick-festin-obituary\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:40:00","slug":"niceto-nick-festin-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/niceto-nick-festin-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Niceto (Nick) Festin | Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&ldquo;Dahil sa iyo, ako&rsquo; y lumigaya&rdquo;* (Because of you there&rsquo;s joy in living)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Niceto (Nick) Festin was born in Romblon on March 20, 1935. As a young boy growing up in the Philippines, he would watch the Hollywood movies that came to the islands&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(John Wayne and Errol Flynn!) and dream of coming to America. He was always a bit of a dreamer.<\/p>\n<p>After serving in the US Coast Guard, Nick began his long career as a chef.<\/p>\n<p>Good food was important to him; whether dazzling customers with Chateaubriand or delighting loved ones by serving up his signature spareribs and pancit at family gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>Nick worked hard and played hard. He loved music, dancing, playing the guitar, betting on the ponies, golfing, pool, fishing, the Seattle Seahawks, gardening (red roses!), a VO water highball, and his dogs Bullit and Bobo.<\/p>\n<p>But above all, Nick loved his family.<\/p>\n<p>He passed away peacefully on June 28, 2022, and is survived by his soulmate of 32 years, Gladys Pfaff; his son Michael Festin and wife Trish; daughter Trining Hawkins and husband Greg; son Niceto Festin; granddaughters Stevie and Katharine Festin, Matina Hawkins, Shalayna Bacchus and husband Israel.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much more that could be said about this special and much-loved man.<\/p>\n<p>But Nick would probably just say, &rdquo;Aye, too much carook carook!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Private Memorial will be held @ Tahoma National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>*Dahil Sa Iyo by Mike Velarde Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>&ldquo;Dahil sa iyo, ako&rsquo; y lumigaya&rdquo;* (Because of you there&rsquo;s joy in living)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":58897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58896"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=58896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}