Personal Life
As a devoted wife to Raul, Sonia actively supported her husband in all his roles as lawyer, congressman, senator, Secretary of Education, presidential candidate, and international parliamentarian. The couple has six children and seven grandchildren. They were bestowed the Golden Parents Award for 1995.
In both 1998 and 2004 Philippine presidential campaign, Sonia actively campaigned for her husband and was described by local media as very well-prepared to be a First Lady of the Philippines. On August 5, 2005, Raul Roco died of prostate cancer.
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