Elvis Gutierrez with his late wife Alexa | Photo: Instagram/@life.of.guti
Elvis Gutierrez remembered his late wife, Alexa Uichico-Gutierrez, in a heartwarming post as he looked back on happier days with his wife before she succumbed to her battle with leukemia last Saturday at age 38.
Alexa’s wake will be held at the Santuario De San Antonio, Forbes Park, McKinley Road in Makati City from July 29 to 31, while inurnment is scheduled on August 1.
On Instagram, Gutierrez shared a photo of Alexa wearing her most beautiful smile, taken when she was 19 and just learning to drive.
“You were 19; I was 22. This was the first day you learned how to drive. I wanted to capture how happy you were. You called me the best driving teacher. I miss you so much,” he wrote in his caption.
In the comment section of his post, friends and celebrities extended their sympathies to the family Alexa left behind.
“Praying for you and your family. So sorry for your loss Elvis,” wrote Solenn Heussaff.
“Alexa. One of the happiest girls ever. She loved you so much. Praying for you guys,” expressed one of their closest friends.
As of this writing, Gutierrez is re-posting every single tribute on his Instagram story dedicated to his wife from their family and friends.
His sister Ruffa Gutierrez announced Alexa’s death on her Instagram account on Sunday, followed by Elvis, who then posted a photo of him kissing his wife and simply captioned it with a white heart emoji.
In January, Ruffa appealed for prayers for her sister-in-law, who had been seeking medical treatment for several months and whom she described as a “brave and beautiful soul” and a “devoted wife” to her brother.
Coming from an Uichico clan in Iloilo, Alexa was a model and eventually became an entrepreneur. In her death, she was succeeded by her husband and their two daughters, Aria and Ezra.
Meanwhile, veteran celebrity couple Eddie and Annabelle Rama are the parents of Elvis. He briefly joined the entertainment industry as a child star but left it all behind despite coming from a family of actors, specifically his younger twin brothers, Richard and host Raymond Gutierrez.