Location: Governor Roque B. Ablan, Sr. Shrine, A. Bonifacio Street, Laoag, Ilocos Norte
Category: Personages
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1951
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
ROQUE B. ABLAN
1906 -1943
NEWSPAPERMAN, LAWYER, SOCIAL WORKER, LABOR LEADER: AS PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR OF ILOCOS NORTE AT THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II, ORGANIZED A LOCAL RESISTANCE GOVERNMENT; FOUGHT THE INVADERS VALIANTLY UNTIL HIS DISAPPEARANCE IN 1943.
