Ngoriakl was the

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) from 1958 to 1972.

Life

Ngoriakl died in 1972 and his body arrived in Palau on September 30, 1972 where funeral ceremonies took place in which Thomas Remengesau delivered the

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. Takeo Ishida, Chief of Japanese Graves Mission, posthumously honoured him by giving him the Fourth Class

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which was presented to his widow in October 1972.

References

1972 deaths 20th-century Palauan people Ibeduls of Koror Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th class Year of birth missing {{Palau-stub