Adrianna Aquino

*In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Garcia and the surname or paternal family name is Aquino.*

 **Nationality:** | Filipino

**Adrianna Garcia Marcos** (née **Aquino**; January 11, 1931 – April 9, 1994) was a Filipino woman who was once the ex-girlfriend of Nikolai Obic Jr., whom the two dated from 1948 until 1954. She had one daughter with him, named Katharine, born on April 24, 1951. In late 1954, Obic and Aquino were forced to break up because of his father’s issue with his children dating/marrying people that are of Asian descent. In 1955, Aquino married Max Marcos and she had three children with him, Jessica, Ferdinand and William. Aquino died on April 9, 1994, aged 63, from thyroid cancer in Cebu City, Philippines.

## Biography

Adrianna Aquino was born on January 11, 1931 in Manila, Philippines. Around that time, the Philippines was part of the U.S. commonwealth being called “Insular Government of the Philippine Islands”. She was not the sister of Filipino senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. Aquino and her family fled the Philippines to North America. Her father was a naval commander for the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was the one who came up with the idea for the Aquino family to immigrate to North America. They lived in Los Angeles around 1944 but didn’t arrive in Winnipeg until 1947. In 1948, Nikolai Obic Jr. was then 18 years old and he went on to have an affair with then 17-year-old Aquino. Aquino and Obic loved each other… a lot. All of a sudden, the Korean War broke out. Obic and his father enlisted three months after it began. Aquino was left home with Obic’s family. She first noticed her pregnancy around October of 1950 while Obic was away with his father and uncle over in Korea. On April 24, 1951, Aquino gave birth to one daughter, named Katharine. Obic returned to Winnipeg around 1953 but his father didn’t return until the following year. Because Aquino had the child, she even went as a far as making Obic do everything for Katharine as Aquino wanted nothing to do with her. Obic and Aquino separated in 1954. The following year, Aquino returned back to Manila and she got married to Max Marcos (1926–2010) and had three children, two sons and one daughter. In 1993, Aquino was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She died on April 9, 1994, aged 63, in Cebu City, Philippines. Aquino’s remains were interred at Cebu Evergreen Memorial Park.

## Family

* Father: Jose Aquino (August 12, 1902 – March 6, 1963)
* Mother: Liza Garcia (May 8, 1904 – July 14, 1949)
* Brother 1: Jose Aquino Jr. (April 18, 1927 – November 21, 2018)
* Brother 2: Carlo Aquino (May 31, 1934 – December 9, 2023)
* Ex-boyfriend: Nikolai Obic Jr. (May 11, 1930 – March 23, 1965)
* Daughter: Katharine Obic (April 24, 1951 – September 29, 2022)

## Trivia

* Despite living about ten years of her life in Canada and the United States, Aquino never received an official citizenship for Canada so she was forced to go back the Philippines by law.
* Aquino got thyroid cancer due to her heavy addiction to smoking.
* Her daughter Katharine described her mother as “foul, insulting and rude” due to her behaviour that she had with Obic once his father came home from North Korea.