MANILA, Philippines—He wore many hats—as a government worker, professor, dentist, church lector and medical frontline worker. But to his daughters, the most important hat that Dr. Raymond V. Reyes wore was as a father.
Marymon, the youngest of Dr. Raymond’s two daughters, would remember this Sunday (June 20) as the family’s First Father’s Day without her father.
Dr. Raymond was public dentist at Earnshaw Health Center in Manila, professor at National University’s (NU) College of Dentistry, dentist at his private clinic and lector and commentator at the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto Parish.
When the pandemic struck, Dr. Raymond wore another hat—that of a medical…
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