THE last time she heard his voice was around 8 am on Nov. 8 last year as he was reporting the onslaught of super typhoon Yolanda in Leyte.

Ronald Vinas, Ronalyn’s husband, the anchorman of DYVL Radyo Aksyon Tacloban, had been broadcasting the devastation being wreaked by the strongest typhoon to hit land in history, and it turned out it was his last.

She never heard from him again, and six months after Yolanda’s rampage in Eastern Visayas disaster officials said the typhoon killed 6,300 people, injured 28,689 and caused P90 billion damage to property. A total of 1,061 remain missing and feared dead—including possibly Vinas.  But she remains hopeful.

“Seeing the body of my husband is the only way to convince me that he is already gone…that he is dead,” said Ronalyn who teaches at the Tolosa Central School.

“He loved me very much. Although we didn’t have any children in our four years of being married we were very very happy. I just wish he is not in the mass grave.”

Ronalyn remembers hesitating to allow her husband to leave their home in Tolosa the day Yolanda made landfall, but Vinas insisted.

She later learned that huge waves from the sea swept through the radio station’s building in Poblacion, Leyte, and soon the radio program went off the air. Vinas and radio technician Allan Medino were never heard from again.