A Perth group is rallying round a 13-year-old lady left orphaned after her mother and father drowned whereas fishing in an estuary south of Mandurah.
The alarm was raised on Thursday after 50-year-old Jon Ballo and his 49-year-old spouse Leslie did not return residence from their weekly Wednesday fishing journey at Birchmont after which did not arrive at work.
Jon Ballo, 50, and his spouse Leslie, 49, drowned throughout a fishing journey close to Mandurah.
Household buddy Mirasol Armada advised 9 Information Perth she sensed one thing was fallacious and contacted police, who found the couple’s automobile on the Herron Level tenting web site.
Their our bodies had been found within the estuary about noon.
The couple, who migrated to Perth 9 years in the past, are understood to have launched into common fishing journeys as a bonding train.
The information has devastated the pair’s mother and father, who had been holidaying in Perth from the Philippines on the time of the incident.
The tragedy additionally comes only a fortnight after the Ballos, who’ve been married for twenty-four years, renewed their vows.
Household, pals and the New Life Filipino-Australian Neighborhood Church at the moment are rallying across the couple’s 13-year-old daughter, vowing to take her in.
Armada described the “golden couple” as sort and beneficiant, revealing they’d usually go door to door sharing the seafood they’d caught throughout their weekly fishing journeys.