#Mya Gonzales

[somosorigen]

C’Mon C’ Mon… El Viaje A Ninguna Parte

C’Mon C’ Mon… El Viaje A Ninguna Parte

Después del estruendo por su personaje como Joker, Joaquin Phoenix regresa con esta cinta que viene influenciada por esta ola blanquecina envuelta en nostalgia a blanco y negro, moda que impuso Roma de Alfonso Cuarón, hace unos algunos  años. Una historia sobre un reportero que sin querer retratará su realidad a través de los ojos de la niñez. (more…)

[educated-dumbass]

Enemies to Lovers List

(I’m aware there’s plenty more but I saw too many naked or topless men when looking for them. I’m too gay to appreciate that on my feed)

Romance:

Requiem for Immortals by Lee Winter

Sins and Needles by Karina Halle

Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales

A Whisper of Solace by Milena McKay

Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

First Position by Melissa Brayden

The V Girl: a Coming of Age Story by Mya Robarts

Fantasy:

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

Angelfall by Susan Ee

The Awakening by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner

The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska

The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Graceling by Kristin Cashcore

Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

Sci-fi:

Seven Devils by Laura Lam

City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Historical Fiction:

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

[simiaysa]

San Sequoia, Monday Time: 3:45 am

A usual morning for the Gonzales family. This household has always been an early bird since Donnell has been born. Donnell is such a light sleeper that any movement around the house wakes him up. He cries so loud that you have no choice but to get your day started early.

The household has been preparing for the new arrival of baby Raegan. The nursery has been completed with the help of Grandma Gracelyn and the father Desmond. Since the preparation, the oldest child Mya has been searching for apartments in San Myshuno, she hasn't told her parents yet but she believes it's time for her to spread her wings.

Miko is just so cute laying on the couch watching tv with Donnell

[davidsvlogs]

[torso-fuck]

Michela: rillane! your speech was so good!

Riliane: allbecauseididnteventryitwaslike-

Michela: oH MY GOD WHY CANT YOU JUST TAKE THE FUCKING COMPLIME- AAAAAA

[doubleattitude]

24/SEVEN Dance Convention, Provo, UT: RESULTS

High Scores by Age:

Sidekick Solo

1st: Stella Brinkerhoff-’Fly

2nd: Mila Renae-’Move’

2nd: Sylvie Win Szyndlar-’Rainbow Connection’

3rd: Monaco Gonzales-’B.E.A.T.S’

3rd: Ivy Mcewan-’Dance Like Your Daddy’

3rd: Finley Nielsen-’Make You Feel My Love’

4th: Malia Tuaileva-’Stupid Cupid’

4th: Navie Mees-’Sweet Child’

4th: Melina Blitz-’The Poet Creature’

5th: Avery Van Cott-’Blood, Sweat and Tears’

6th: Brinley Lulloff-’Speaking French’

7th: Naomi Harper-’Speechless’

8th: Penelope Prager-’Here Comes The Sun’

8th: Kai Diaz de Leon-’What A Wonderful World’

9th: Addalyn Daley-’Smallest Light’

10th: Olivia Foote-’It’s Oh So Quiet’

Mini Solo

1st: Ruby Taylor-’I Got It’

2nd: Tiara Sherman-’..And The Things That Remain’

2nd: Ellary Day Szyndlar-’Snow’

3rd: Elsie Sandall-’Almost Gone’

3rd: Tessa Ohran-’Knock 1-2-3′

3rd: Alexis Alvarez-’Welcome Home’

4th: Kylie Lawrence-’Breathe In’

4th: Karyna Majeroni-’Pistolette’

4th: Kendyl Miller-’Stand By Me’

4th: Kalista Greer-’Yesterday’

5th: Reegan Francis-’Just A Girl’

6th: Kate Baker-’I’ll Stand By You’

7th: London Smith-’Feel My Love’

8th: Brielle Maciel-’Lean On Me’

9th: Anistyn Larsen-’Desire’

9th: Addison Price-’We Will Not Give In’

10th: Claire Hansen-’By The Roses’

10th: Esprit Frank-’Grains’

10th: Brooklyn Ward-’Here I Am’

10th: Khloe Douros-’Not About Angels’

10th: Tabitha Nan-’Torn’

10th: Hadlee Heriford-’Unbroken’

10th: Patience Hughes-’Weird People’

Junior Solo

1st: Brooke Toro-’As The Dust Settles’

2nd: Stella Condie-’Go Away’

2nd: Bella Fernandez-’She Was Running’

3rd: Kylie Kaminsky-’Beneath the Surface’

3rd: Mya Tuaileva-’Can’t Unhear’

3rd: Kamri Peterson-’Crawl When You Can’t Walk’

3rd: Colby Rich-’Exhale’

4th: Taylor Harrison-’Dawn Chorus’

4th: Makaia Roux-’Everything I Wanted’

4th: Abbi Francis-’Feel It Still’

5th: Kortlynn Rosenbaugh-’Concentration’

5th: Victoria Johnson-’Genius’

5th: Brooke Dubbs-’I Know’

5th: Seren Carter-’Natural’

5th: Alita Kneeland-’Spine’

6th: Lena Hirsch-’Forsaken’

6th: Bosco Wong-’Malaguana’

6th: Vivienne Mitchell-’Metamorphosis’

6th: Blakely Bell-’Shifting’

7th: Caroline McGowan-’Everything Evaporates’

7th: Amaya Llewellyn-’Must’

7th: Kanon Greer-’To The Sky’

8th: Mia Olson-’Marionette Mischief’

8th: Stella Paxton-’Punching In A Dream’

8th: Taytym Ruckle-’Ultraviolet’

9th: Anna Hendershot-’Human’

10th: Reese Kringlen-’Enough’

10th: Aida Nielsen-’Heart of Glass’

10th: Reese Newmarker-’Small World’

Teen Solo

1st: Brady Farrar-’And You’ll See Me’

2nd: Beth Anne McGowan-’Informally Cool’

2nd: Izzy Howard-’Labryinth’

2nd: Hailey Bills-’You’

3rd: Allie Andrew-’Coiled’

3rd: Addison Middleton-’Dark Dissonance’

3rd: Jordan Lassiter-’Joyful Girl’

3rd: Sabine Nehls-’No Regrets’

3rd: Oana Barber-’Tenderness’

4th: Alexis Adair-’A.M.’

4th: Zoe Ridge-’A Thousand Eyes’

4th: Ceilidh McSeveney-’Harm Me’

4th: Gabriella Jensen-’Lost In Your Lies’

5th: Luke Barrett-’Eden’

5th: Emersyn Dickson-’Plans We Made’

5th: Jordynn Christianson-’Sideshow’

5th: Indy Benson-’Soundscape’

6th: Olivia Pinon-’Les Mots Bleus’

6th: Rylee Arnold-’Dirty Diana’

6th: Kya Story-’Gimme All Your Love’

6th: Cydney Heard-’I Dream of You Again’

6th: Hailey Nieva-’I Forgot’

6th: Cassandra Wagstaff-’Zucht 2′

7th: Mia Ibach-’Koladi Ola’

7th: Jaylynn Lindley-’Wisdom Cries’

7th: London Ludwig-’Work’

7th: Ella DeVore-’Zeita’

8th: Emma Martin-’Problem’

8th: Tessa Horsley-’Reflections’

9th: Tiffany Robinson-’Touch’

10th: Madison Goulding-’Mad World’

10th: Ava Allred-’Promises’

10th: London Williamson-’Slow Decent’

Senior Solo

1st: Carter Williams-’20 Years’

1st: Abby Dayton-’Acceptance’

1st: Elijah Hatch-’Escaping Darkness’

2nd: Brooklin Hunsaker-’Godspeed’

2nd: Brooke Melillo-’HIT’

2nd: Amanda Taylor-’I Was Wrong’

2nd: Sicily Redd-’Lamentation’

2nd: Natalia Jensen-’The Last Of Us’

2nd: Paige Wagstaff-’These Days’

3rd: Camry Blackhurst-’Airstrike’

3rd: Ashley Wilcox-’Emigre’

3rd: Taylor Tebbs-’Inertia’

3rd: Chloee Lowrence-’Recall’

4th: Emily Marsh-’Destination’

5th: Ambrie Kirkham-’Blues Run The Game’

5th: Remy Wright-’Moments Passed’

6th: Freddie Linden-’Rescue Me’

7th: Kelsey Tippetts-’Never Grow Old’

7th: Savannah Shaw-’Space Is Only Noise’

7th: Sydni Desmond-’Wild As The Wind’

8th: Abigail Crittenden-’Space’

8th: Charley Osterberg-’Woman’

9th: Rachel McEwan-’I Won’t Hurt You’

9th: Eleni Yannias-’Slow Down’

9th: Lyvia Day-’Tides’

9th: Chloe Baddley-’Volcanic’

10th: Caitlyn Lane-’My Strange Addiction’

Sidekick Duo/Trio

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’No More I Love Yous’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’I’ve Got Rhythm’

3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Hound Dog’

Mini Duo/Trio

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Blue Skies’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’King’

3rd: Danceology-’Do Something’

Junior Duo/Trio

1st:  Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Size’

2nd: The Winner School-’Million Dollar Secret’

3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Weightless’

Teen Duo/Trio

1st: The Rock Center for Dance-’Last Light’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Not The News’

3rd: Empower Dance-’All My Friends’

Senior Duo/Trio

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’I’ll Never Love Again’

2nd: The Winner School-’In Search Of’

3rd: Artistic Dance Project-’Voodoov’

Sidekick Group

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Bird’

Mini Group

1st: The Winner School-’Big Time’

2nd: The Winner School-’Dance Bug’

3rd: The Winner School-’Stand By Me’

Junior Group

1st: The Winner School-’Icon’

2nd: The Winner School-’Searching Together’

3rd: The Winner School-’You Don’t Know Me’

Teen Group

1st: The Winner School-’Free Hand’

1st: The Winner School-’Moving On’

2nd: The Winner School-’Magnificent’

3rd: The Winner School-’War Song’

Senior Group

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’A Little After The Sun’

2nd: Artistic Dance Project-’Letting Go’

3rd: Artistic Dance Project-’Boombastic’

Sidekick Line

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Let’s Get Loud’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Scooby Doo’

3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’New Girl In Town’

Mini Line

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’The Moon’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’I Work 2020′

3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Uptown Girls’

Junior Line

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Girls’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sad Day’

3rd: The Dance Company-’Entropy’

Teen Line

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’Greed’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sometimes When It Rains’

3rd: The Winner School-’Feel It Still’

Senior Line

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’Storm’

2nd: Artistic Dance Project-’Mother’

3rd: Artistic Dance Project-’Live Another Life’

Mini Extended Line

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Time’

2nd: Artistic Dance Project-’Super Model’

Junior Extended Line

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’I Love It’

Teen Extended Line

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Could Look Away’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Aquatic’

3rd: Artistic Dance Project-’Can’t Pretend’

3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Pink and Blue’

Senior Extended Line

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Goliath’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’You’

3rd: Artistic Dance Project-’Knocking On Heavens Door’

Mini Production

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Swagger Jagger’

Junior Production

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Snitches and Rats’

1st: Artistic Dance Project-’Take It’

2nd: Artistic Dance Project-’Swish’

Teen Production

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Diamonds’

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’For Dodo’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sexy Back’

Senior Production

1st:  Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’No Bystanders’

High Scores by Performance Division:

Sidekick Contemporary

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Bird’

Sidekick Lyrical

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’The Rose’

Sidekick Specialty

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Let’s Get Loud’

Sidekick Musical Theatre

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’New Girl In Town’

Sidekick Hip-Hop

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Scooby Doo’

Mini Musical Theatre

The Winner School-’Big Time’

Mini Jazz

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’I Work 2020′

Mini Lyrical

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’The Moon’

Mini Specialty

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Uptown Girls’

Mini Contemporary

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Time’

Mini Ballroom

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Swagger Jagger’

Junior Contemporary

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sad Day’

Junior Jazz

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’I Love It’

Artistic Dance Project-’Take It’

Junior Lyrical

Artistic Dance Project-’Bright Horses’

Junior Tap

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Birds’

Junior Ballet

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Going to School’

Junior Ballroom

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Girls’

Junior Hip-Hop

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Snitches and Rats’

Teen Contemporary

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Could Look Away’

Teen Musical Theatre

The Winner School-’Next to You’

Teen Tap

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Softly, Heavy’

Teen Jazz

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sexy Back’

Teen Lyrical

The Winner School-’Moving On’

Teen Ballet

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sometimes When It Rains’

Teen Specialty

Artistic Dance Project-’Greed’

Teen Ballroom

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Diamonds’

Teen Hip-Hop

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’For Dodo’

Senior Ballet

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Lost Light’

Senior Contemporary

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’You’

Senior Jazz

Artistic Dance Project-’Boombastic’

Senior Tap

Artistic Dance Project-’I Wanna Dance’

Senior Lyrical

Artistic Dance Project-’Letting Go’

Senior Specialty

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Goliath’

Senior Hip-Hop

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’No Bystanders’

11 O’Clock:

Sidekick

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Let’s Get Loud’

Mini

The Winner School-’Big Time’

The Dance Company-’I Feel For You’

Artistic Dance Project-’Super Model’

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Swagger Jagger’

Junior

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Girls’

The Dance Company-’Entropy’

The Winner School-’Icon’

Artistic Dance Project-’Take It’

Teen

The Winner School-’Moving On’

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Could Look Away’

Artistic Dance Project-’Greed’

Senior

Central Utah Ballet-’Embrace’

Artistic Dance Project-’A Little After The Sun’

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’No Bystanders’

Studio Showcase:

The Winner School-’Moving On’

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Could Look Away’

Artistic Dance Project-’A Little After The Sun’

[jorgerisso]

Lo que vi esta semana

C'MON C'MON

Año: 2021

Pais: Estados Unidos

Dirección: Mike Mills

Fotografia: Robbie Ryan

🎬 Joya cinematográfica, brillante. Filmada en un bellísimo blanco y negro lo que la hace melancólica y profunda. Esta obra de Mills es un inteligente y bellísimo relato sobre la niñez con diálogos sinceros y muy verdaderos.

Joaquin Phoenix arriba pero muy arriba, magnifica actuación.

Sinopsis:

Johnny ( Phoenix) viaja a través del país con un equipo de 3 amigos y su grabadora , es un periodista radiofónico que entrevista chicos haciéndolos decir su realidad del mundo. Su hermana tiene problemas con su ex marido quién debe ser internado y decide acudir a su hermano para que cuide a su hijo. Su sobrino de 9 años cambiará la vida de este hombre quien vive solo para trabajar, entonces se embarcaron en un viaje de disfrute, trabajo y conocimiento de sus personalidades.

⭐ Muy Buena

Reparto

Joaquin Phoenix, Woody Norman, Gaby Hoffmann, Brandon Rush, Mary Passeri, Khadija Emma Neumann, Cooper Jack Rubin, Elaine Kagan, Kate Adams, Mya Gonzales, Artrial Clark,

#amantesdelcinedejorgedomingorisso

#buencine

#blancoynegro

#drama.

[astrologieez]

The Signs as Female Viners

Aries: Sara Hopkins

Taurus: Summerella

Gemini: Mikaela Long

Cancer: chloe lmao

Leo: Not Even Emily

Virgo: Mielmonstor

Libra: Mya Gonzales

Scorpio: perfectlaughs

Sagittarius: Sarah Schauer

Capricorn: Liza Koshy

Aquarius: The Gabbie Show

Pisces: QuenSadilla

[sapphicrpc]

can you think of some trans FC's? I always see Elliott Fletcher ( and that's great !! ) But I'd love to see some more out there, so I think I might just gif a bunch of trans FC's! Bonus points for POC's or plus-size!

you’re lucky i’ve never actually seen even elliott played kzxdbldj BUT i mean it depends what gender you want! 

[ HERE ] is a masterlist of non binary fcs

transgender men

riley carter millington 

alex bertie

skylar kergil

jeydon wale

benton sorensen

aydian dowling

benjamin melzer

kye allums

laith ashley

alec butler

cameron russo

ryan cassata

sam collins

avery vernon

ty turner

buck angel

chaz bono

jay kelly

tiq milan

kamari marchbanks

shane ortega

cayden carter

transgender women

jen richards

angela vanity

laverne cox

gigi gorgeous

alexandra billings

candis cayne

carmen carrera

jamie clayton

jamie ryan dee

hari nef

harmony santana

julie vu

isis king *i feel like i heard some problematic shit about her tho idk

mya taylor

tracey norman

stef sanjati

maria clara spinelli

kat blaque

trinity anne

nong poy

sabel gonzales

chrissy renaee

jazz jennings

angela vanity

this took me about half an hour but yes, here are TONNES of trans fcs, like a mini masterlist. bolded are poc!

[nsula]

Spring 2018 Dean’s List

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University announced the names of 1,087 students named to the Dean’s List for the Spring 2018 semester.  Students on the Dean’s List maintained a 3.5-3.99 grade point average. Students, listed by hometown, are as follows.

 Abbeville -- MaKayla Lewis;

Albany -- Kaitlyn Kinchen;

Alexandria -- Chris Vincent Advincula, Evelyn Allen-Lewis, Lili Bedoya, Heather Bergeron, Tianna Bowens, Lydia Branch, Morgan Bryant, Thomas Crowe, Noel Cusick, Angela Dunn, Aubrey Farque, Claudia Gauthier, Ian Grant, Monnie Guillory, Tameka Hammonds, Tyraneisha Hayward, Roderick Henry, Martha Hopewell, Jaliyah Jasper, Whitney Joffrion, Jordan Johnson, Kelli Leone, Hunter Lewis, Jimmie Magee, Aaron Martin, Ceerah McNeal, Jennifer Miranda, Kylah Porter, Sailor Reed, Savannah Sices, Shacora Simpson, Christopher Warren, Shanequa Watkins, Amber Williams Taylor;

Anacoco -- Lindsey Alligood, Kinsley Blakeway, Kenneth Cochran, Alan Cosio, Nicole Fitzgerald, Rachel Fournier, Christopher Guy, Elizabeth Guy, Karlee Laurence, Brittany Lewis, Mahala Lewis, Caitlin McKee, Kayli O’Toole, Clarissa Owens, Katie Perkins, Bret Phillips, Amanda Shores, Cheyenne Taylor;

Anchorage, Alaska -- Sydney Bulot;

Angola -- Ursula Poarch;

Arlington, Texas -- Mariah Denson;

Arnaudville -- Zachary Leboeuf;

Ashland -- Victoria Roderick;

Atlanta -- Peyton Howell, Morgan Williams;

Atlanta, Texas -- Shannon Jones;

Aurora, Colorado -- William Mccullough;

Austin, Texas -- Ysmina Smith;

Avondale -- Brian Videau;

Baker -- Devante George;

Baldwin -- Lakesha Colar, Gerianna Lyons;

Ball -- Stephen Carpenter, Nickolas Juneau, Lauren Nugent, Vanessa Toney, Megan Wakefield, Alice Wilson;

Barksdale AFB -- Elysia Lanier, Tova Volcheck;

Barlanquillo Atlantico, Columbia -- Camilo Simancas Morelo;

Baton Rouge -- Emmanuel Dunn, Lydell Emerson, Madison Fry, Julian Guerrero Acevedo, Maisyn Guillory, John Guillot, Kelly Guillot, Madison Harris, Jessica Joseph, Mckane Kinchen, Henrietta Mercer, Madalyn Mullins, Katie Pham, Colleen Reese, Reagan Smith, Jason Stampley;

Beaumont, Texas -- Dustin Burns;

Belcher -- Sierra Laing;

Belle Chasse -- Natalie Wilson;

Belmont -- Tristan Ponder;

Bentley -- Zachary Doucet;

Benton -- Kelyn Bihm, Christopher Heard, Kara Knippers, Jessica O'Neal, Jadyn Sepulvado, Torea Taylor, Kimberly Umphries;

Bernice -- Brandy Ganter;

Blanco, Texas -- Reagan Rogers;

Bogalusa -- Amanda Crawford;

Boise, Idaho -- Jessica Anderson;

Bossier City -- Alexander Bequette, Kendall Caple, Jael Ahmad, Lauryn Bakalis, Abigail Barkley, Breanna Black, Elizabeth Blair, Brittany Boothe, Steven Braddock, Katie Briggs, Jonathan Castillo, Peyton Davis, Anthonia Dogbey, Madison Edwards, Bailey Freeman, Karli Freeman, Laschae Gadson, Kelsey Gallman, Julie Golden, Mizzani Grigsby, Candace Guillory, Devonte Hall, Oai Lee Huynh, Anton Inyakov, Dejaney Jackson, Nourain Jamhour, Anqumesha Jeter, Shane Kaiser, Tina Kile, Danielle Lombardino, Alexandra Madrid, Samantha Maiette, Caroline McKee,  Amanda Mings, Stacy Moore, Katherine Parson, Kennedy Parson, Brittani Phillips, Kathryn Pierce, Rachael Pierce, Tatyana Porter, Timothy Rice, Jami Rivers, Jasmine Roberson, Kassidy Robideaux, Madison Rowland, Rheagan Rowland, Jeremy Ryals, Dakota Schudalla, Ranya Shihadeh, Hope Spaw, Tabitha Stevenson, Susan Stone, James Taylor,  Jazmine Tom-Jones, Giselle Trejo, Lacey Velasquez, Madalyn Watson, Meagan Willis, Nour Zeidan, Eric Zheng;

Bourg -- Micaiah Richie, Abigail Trahan;

Boyce -- Tiffany Barnhart, Ekaterina Bordelon, Sarah Hill, Sonya Hill, Hannah Miller, Ashley Smith;

Breaux Bridge -- Ashtin Mouton, Tyler Thibodeaux;

Brentwood, Tennessee -- Joe Tappel;

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma -- Madeline Drake;

Bunkie -- Emily Arnaud;

Burleson, Texas -- Eric Neeley;

Campti -- Alisha Bedgood, Paige Cason, Trenton Parker, Ronald Reliford, Madeline Valencia, Rebekah Wiley;

Carencro -- Malik Babin, Chaney Dodge, Destiny Kennerson;

Cartagena, Bolivar -- Carlos Camargo Patron, Maria Carmona-Ruiz, Angela Coneo Valdez, Carlomagno Leon Jimenez, Paula Martinez Marrugo, Nestor Mercado-Garcia, Romulo Osorio Herrera, Ronald Rodriguez Herrera, Valentina Herazo Alvarez, Luis Osorio Betancourt, Juan Paternina Paez, Valeria Perez Espinosa, Alonso Restrepo Cardozo;

Cedar Hill, Texas -- Timmis Bonner;

Chalmette -- Sara Mendoza;

Cheneyville -- Katelyn Baronne;

Chicago, Illinois -- Brandon Hutton;

Choudrant -- Taylor Holley, Mya Melancon;

Clayton -- Glendalyn Boothe, Ruben Smith;

Colfax -- Camren Bell, Michael Dupre, Angela McCann, Lessie Rushing, Elizabeth Slayter, Morgan Vandegevel;

Colorado Springs, Colorado -- Rossana Potempa;

Columbia, South Carolina -- Brittany Bell;

Converse -- Samantha Davis, Ashley Forgues Brock, Hannah Womack;

Costa Mesa, California -- Keith Ford;

Cottonport -- Zachary Gauthier, Justin Tigner;

Coushatta -- Jason Bell, Nick Ezernack, Erikka Johnson, Jamary Jones, Sidney Jones, Aaron Murray, Jacob Shaver, Precious Smith, John Squires, Keyairrowa Thomas, Treasure Wilson, Caroline Wren, Lauren Young, Rena Yount;

Covington -- Justin Brogdon, Rachael Coyne, Margaret Denny, Titus McCann, Andrea Mier, Cathleen Oviedo, Catherine Sadler, Kenneth Sears, Jennifer Vo;

Coyolilla Veracruz, Mexico -- Guadalupe de Jesus Mendez Zaragoza;

Creole -- Brooklyn Frerks;

Crowley -- Kylan Poullard, Desiree Robinson;

Cut Off -- Zachary Breaux;

Cypress, Texas -- Alexis Gomez;

Dayton, Texas -- Jerry Maddox;

DeBerry, Texas -- Sarah Britt;

Deer Park, Texas -- Blake Stephenson;

Denham Springs – Joey Carroll, James Fillingame, Caitlin Griffin, Keisha Johnson, Halle Mahfouz, Amy Thomas, Jenson Wall, Emily Williams;

DeQuincy -- Austin Nichols;

DeRidder -- Dawanna Burgess, Maygin Chesson, Alphonse Engram, John Ham, Michael Keeper, Kayla Kowalski, Reagan Laird, Brittney March, Shayla Miller, Zachary Pursley;

Derry -- Hannah Antee;

Desoto, Texas -- Nicholas Forde;

Destrehan – Patrick Juneau;

Deville -- Hailey Bolton, Savannah Carter, Hailie Coutee, Kinley Deville, Candice Dryden, Hannah Lewis, Caleb Rhodes, Sydney Ryder;

Dike, Texas -- Brynn Offutt;

Dodson -- Courtney Booker, Kierstyn Cyrus, Haley McClendon;

Doyline -- Lucas Darbonne, Zeke Wallace;

Dry Prong -- Megan Alwell, DeAnna Bartlett, Jacob Boydstun, Ashley Martin, Judith Mixon;

Dubberly -- Alex Robles;

East Windsor, New Jersey – Andreia Martins;

Edmond, Oklahoma -- Ashley Medawattage, Amanda Stokes;

El Paso, Texas -- Christopher Barron;

Elizabeth -- Kolby Friday, Clyde Hurst;

Elmer -- Tula Newman;

Eros -- Alecia Smith;

Eunice -- Jeremy Ortego;

Ferriday -- Dalenesha Wimley;

Flatwoods -- Taylor Nichols;

Florien -- Whitney Byles, Travis Cook, Emma Herrington, Jackson Kleven, Ashton Remedies, Megan Wagley, Shari Wilson;

Flower Mound, Texas -- Cody McGee;

Folsom -- Sarah Moore;

Forest Hill -- Brett Atkinson, Anna Doherty, Rafael Sierra, Charli Stanley, Nancy Vargas, Leslie Winners;

Fort Lauderdale -- Abigail Pangallo;

Fort Polk -- Brittany Chadwick, Molly Fields, Clarrissa Lancour, Blaise Nkengafac, Lindsay Romero, Shiela May Tabonares, Jimma Tear, Nohora Valencia Camacho, Leslie Whitsett;

Fort Worth, Texas -- Angelica Valdez;

Fouke, Arkansas -- Holly Tweedy;

FPO, AP -- Amber Travis;

Franklin -- Shelley Bell, Abriana Lanceslin;

Franklinton -- Brian Geraghty, Bethany McGinnis;

Freeland, Washington -- Paul Aune;

Frierson – Mason Barnes, Shelby Callens, Treanna Howard, Shawna Longoria, Clinton Oliver, John Rachal;

Frisco, Texas -- Adam Trupp;

Garland, Texas -- Joseph Goodson, Alec Horton, Nia Randall;

Geismar -- Emilee Hawkins;

Georgetown, Texas -- Kyle Bryant;

Glenmora -- Brooks Davis, Faith Lawrence;

Gloster -- Paris Gillum;

Goldonna -- Alexander Guillory, Brandon Smith;

Gonzales, Texas -- Ivan Longoria;

Gorman, Texas -- Kourtney Seaton;

Gorum -- Josephine White;

Grand Cane -- Nathan Graham, Rachel Kinman, Jaylen Mcintyre;

Grand Isle -- Abigail Frazier,

Grand Prairie, Texas -- Stephen Garrett;

Grant -- Regina Johnson;

Gray -- Cassie Becnel;

Greenwell Springs -- Katherine Bryant, Madison Shade, Jamie Brooks;

Greenwood -- Ragan Aple, Malory Jeter, Char'Tarian Wilson;

Gretna -- Donald Wagner;

Gun Barrel City, Texas -- Dustin Huffman;

Hallandale Beach, Florida -- Ralph Boereau;

Hallsville, Texas -- Emma Hawthorne;

Hamtramck, Michigan -- Mary Cotter;

Harlingen, Texas -- Frances Knight;

Harvey -- Tajalai Evans;

Hattiesburg, Mississippi -- Mary Mitchell;

Haughton – Benny Broadway, Kayla Bull, Brittony Cole, Randi Corley, Bethanie Couch, Brandon Curry, Ashley Hamil, Tyler Holdsworth, Sydney MacFarlane, Tonya Morgan, Brooke Payton, Jamie Phillips, Makenzie Rains, Johnathan Schlicher, Logan Turner, Kaili Williams, Brigette Wilson, Chase Woltz;

Haynesville -- Eriel Fields;

Hempstead, Texas -- Joshua Roberts;

Henderson, Texas -- Andrew Blackmon, Asha Cormier;

Hermon, Maine -- Allessa Ingraham-Albert;

Hessmer -- Dana Lala, Molli Lamartiniere;

Hineston -- Richard Clark, Angela Merchant, Madison Morrison, April Nornholm;

Homer -- Madison Cain, Francene Ferguson;

Honolulu, Hawaii -- Melissa Baker;

Hornbeck -- Ronald Guess, Jerry Hughes Jr, Jaclyn Smith;

Hosston -- Alaysia Jaynes;

Houma -- Rhiannon Dean, Billy Gorr, Zoe Hebert, Corinne Paris, Sherrie Pena;

Houston, Texas -- Brittany Davis, Stephanie Hall, Natashia Jackson, Alyssa Jacobs, Kenneth Sheldon, Kendall Westfall, Madilyn Wood;

Hutchinson, Kansas -- Cassandra Childress;

Hutto -- Tommi Long;

Independence -- Sabrina Cook;

Iowa -- Nicholas Fisher, Matthew Phillips, Marvette Williams;

Jeanerette -- Selene Allain-Kovacs, Brandy Jackson;

Jefferson -- Matthew Broekman, Jaleia Parker, Codi Vernace, Amanda Wilburn;

Jena -- William Tradewell;

Jennings -- Emily Benoit, Destany Brown, Janee Charles, Rachel Edwards, Kelsey Fitzgerald, Lindsay Orgeron, Lydia Williams,

Jonesboro -- Dearo Nash;

Jonesville -- Rachel Eichmann, Shana Jefferson, Kayla Robertson, Memory Shriner;

Kaplan -- Gabriel LeMoine;

Katy, Texas -- Brittany Cecil, Clayton Holgorsen;

Keithville -- Eleanor Coleman, Erin McDonnell, Hannah Mikovich, Allie Neill, Cora Procell, Erica Sanders, Alexandra West, Deja White;

Kenner -- Christina Arrechavala, Willie Soniat, Kailyn Verdin;

Kentwood -- Iris Travis;

Kerens, Texas -- Brandon Brumbelow, Eric Guerra;

Kilgore, Texas -- Hannah Gribble;

Kinder -- Lorin All;

Kingwood, Texas -- Eric Piccione;

Klamath Fall, Oregon -- Megan Baker;

Lacey Washington -- Shana Sweeney;

Lafayette -- Samantha Donlon, Ashley Fontenot, Ashley Guidry, Bryce Hernandez, Emilee Leger, Nicole Neveu, Christina Poole, Hunter Robicheaux, Caleb Starks, Julia Towry, China Young;

Lake Providence -- Jayadra Campbell, Tamika Turner;

Lake Arthur -- Nicole Andrews, Hannah Worley;

Lake Charles -- Andrew Darbonne, Kennedy Fontenot, Marsha Heap, Karley Hebert;

LaPlace -- Jalen Haydel, Jacob St. Pierre, Doria Wilson;

Las Vegas, Nevada -- April Ficarrotta;

Lawtell -- Karoline Guidry, Olivia Guidry;

League City, Texas -- Emily Ornelas, Hunter Wamack, Christopher Zirkle;

Lecompte -- Allison Williams;

Leesville -- Junette Cutshaw, Skyler Abrams, Lyric Bacote, Marilyn Brooks, Kaylee Busby, Victoria Butler, Anthony Cantrell, Michael Carradine, Charlotte Cassin, Raven Collins, Haleigh Edinger, Brittany Edwards, Tyana Ellis, Caryllann Fermato, Ashley French, Brittany French, Jessica Gray, Gabriella Haymon, Kimberly Henley, Jessica Herring, Heather Hickman, Caitlan James, Zachary Keeton, Jessica Gray, Karl Marzahl, Kylie McAllister, Kelsea Mckinney, Emily Moore, Kaitlyn Pajinag, Montana Phillips, Charlotte Rivara, Chloe Rouleau, David Santos,  Hannah Scott, Heather Snell, Peggy Stanley, Collin Strickland, Haley Tucker, Matthew Ward, Jessica Taylor;

Lena -- Juan Gonzalez;

Lewisville, Texas -- Venus Par;

Little Elm, Texs -- Jasmine Ealy, Daniel Larin;

Little Rock, Arkansas – Tara Lane;

Livonia -- Ryann Bizette;

Logansport -- Amanda Hill, Ashley Wheless;

 Longview, Texas -- Gustavo Corrales, Hannah Dunn, Robdrick Halton, Joni Overman;

Julie Rawls;

Longville -- Johanna Braden;

Lonoke, Arkansas -- Rachel Terry;

Loranger -- Cambree Bailey, Laurie Lassalle;

Louisville, Mississippi -- Zachary Wilson;

Luling --- Nathan Roth;

Lumberton, Texas -- Joshua Terry;

Madisonville -- Alyce Lis, Jensen Volz;

Mandeville -- Evan Guillory, Guy Lecompte, Connor Loar, Carrie Maxwell, Blake Naquin, Prinice Neyland, Shannon Roussell, Sheridan Smith;

Mangham -- Rebekah Aultman;

Manito, Illinois -- Sarah Picken;

Mansfield -- Nicolette Hogan, Ashley Shelton, Brooke Smith;

Mansura -- Deaisha Johnson, Jonah Johnson, Katherin Lemoine, Distiny Thompson;

Many -- Rachel Bensinger, David Bourgeois, Toby Bruce, Jocelyn Cannon, Tyler Colston, Skyler Ezernack, Tiarra Frazier, Alison Garcia, Brittney Garcie, Savannah Garcie, Sheridan Gowen, Emmy Hinds, Emily Holcomb, Jenifer Meadows, Matthew Peace, Lincoln Pearce, Jonathan Pilcher, Bailey Walker;  

Maringouin -- Laura Scronce, Jalacia Toussant;

Marksville -- Andre Boyer, Erica Ducote, Andria Lachney, Chaterrika Lavalais, Zachary Moreau, Madeleine Morrow, Tanner Nugent;

Marrero -- Lorn Bourgeois, Jade Duthu, Luis Escobar, Addison Hinson;

Marshall, Texas -- Tiffany Cortes, Laurann Graham, Tristian Zamora;

Marthaville -- Dillon Hagan, Mallory Powell, Madeline Procell, Daniel Rachal-Claspill;

Masura -- Kate Losavio;

Maurice -- Jenna-Clair Courville, Nicole Levine;

Merryville -- Kalan Townsley;

Metairie -- Kathryn Bancroft, Cameron Duhe, Mary Gaffney, Ellie Mandel, Madysen Norra;

Midland, Texas -- Savannah Cantwell;

Minden -- Kadeem Bailey, Aubry Dennis, Erin Dotson, Abby Greene, Hutton Leppert, Madison Tanner, Kayla Theus, Heather White;

Mira -- Taylor Andrews;

Missouri City, Texas -- Cayla Jones;

Monroe -- Demonta Brown, Dataya Cummings, Deshon Hayes, Ashley Jackson Franklin, Tatianna Randle;

Montgomery --Laryn Graves, Teri Ogorek, Stephanie Sanders;

Mooringsport -- Jacklyn Dublin;

Mora -- Gracy Rowell;

Morgan City -- Norris Duthu;

Morrow -- Quaniqua Joseph;

Moscow, Russia -- Polina Ivanova,

Mt. Hermon -- Warren McFarlain;

Murrieta, California -- LaQuitta Wilkins;

Natchez -- Victoria Bradford, Courtney Sarpy;

Natchitoches -- Alissa Addison, James Armstrong, Cass Arnold, Adam Barnes, Behrend Behrendsen, Lauren Bennett, Joshua Bolton, Kayla Bordelon, Megan Bouchie, Taylor Burch, Deasia Burrell, Ebone Burton, John Byone, Ana Cardaba Garcia, Valerie Chadick, Hannah Chelette, Laura Coffey, Donna Cooper, Whitney Crooks, Dalton Dark, Cieara Davis, Sean Day, Jacob Ellis, Fred Fontenot, Daniela Forero Salcedo, Ashley Fortenberry, Mark Gallien, Luis Gallo Quintero, Taylor Garland, Christopher Gistarb, Samuel Greene, Pamela Gross, Hannah Haigh, Michaela Haigh, Jorgia Hamel, Jett Hayes, Emily Heard, Marcie Jenkins, Regina Johnson, Zachary Johnson, Jeremy Jones, Brian Jordan, Daniel Killian, Michael Kingsley, Abagael Kinney, Lyndon Knueppel, Jiyoon Lee, Robert Lee, John Lindsey, Luke Lucky, Kary-Katharine McCormick, Amber Minor, Shanteria Montgomery, Destiny Moody, Sarah Moody, Brooklyn Noe, Karmen O' Connor, Joseph Parrie, Kevin Price, LaKendria Remo, Antavious Roberson, Cayla Roberts, Tyler Roberts, Aaron Rogers, William Rogers, Kayla Roquemore, Dante Samuel, Spencer Sepulvado,  Anna Sibley, Josie Stamey, Scott Stewart, Harrison Thomas, Margaret Thompson, Victoria Thompson, Kaleb Usleton, Kristan Valdez, Ricardo Ventura, Ryan Wade, Kathryn White, Sarah Kay, Nicholas Wiggins;

New Iberia -- Tara Bonvillain, Bryson Bourque, Destinee Leger, Natalie Ortega, Madison Romero, Alexis Trosclair;

New Llano -Kendra Jones, Reaz Khan, Dennis Stein;

New Orleans -- Rayna Brantley, Beau Cook, Marquise Davis, Amy Favalora, Jaime Hendrickson, Karina Santiago, Jeffrey Swift;

Newman, Georgia -- Samantha Sims;

Norcross, Georiga -- Kailee Striplin;

Norwood -- Ty'Dashia McElwee;

Oakdale – Alyssa Cole, Kirstin Richard;

Oberlin -- Jonathon Villareal;

Opelousas -- Kierra Doucet, Diamond Leblanc, Amy Levier;

Pacifica, California -- Nicholas Pierotti;

Paris, Texas -- Emily Essary, Zachary Hevron, Cody Vorwerk, Jordan Whatley;

Pattison, Texas -- Morgan Hildebrand;

Pelican -- Mary Myers;

Pereira Risaralda, Columbia -- Mariana Ospina Rivas;

Pineville -- Connor Littleton, Aimee Ashworth, Christian Boudreaux, Raegan Brocato, Samantha Browning, Kaitlyn Burns, Taylor Campbell, Erika Carter, Luke Conway, Caitlin Crawford, Glory Deaton, Cory Franklin, Hannah Gaspard, Brooke Gongre, Leia Graham, Megan Gypin, Katelyn Hebert, Kaylin Jameson, Jacqueline Johnson, Alissa Joseph, Jessica King, Landon King, Carlee Lake, Brooke Leger, Jeffery Lepage, Ashlee Mitchell, Austin Nelson, Michalene Perry, Cinnamon Player, Wendi Powell, Brittany Shackleford, Odie Trusty, Wesley Williams, Alexis Williamson, Alan Winegeart, Jewel Woods, Madeline Wright;

Pitkin -- Jessica Jones;

Plain Dealing -- Hunter Horton;

Plaquemine -- Kameron Landry, Ma Kayla Washington;

Plum City, Wisconsin -- Brittany Reiter-Theeuwen;

Pollock -- Tanner Brazil, William Hardy;

Port Barre -- Olivia Lanclos, Danielle Schexnayder;

Prairieville -- Lauren Breaux, Joanna Bunnell, Claire Credeur, Andrea Gathercole, Jakalyn Hills, Bailey Mohler, Kyle Munson, Payton Stafford, Brooke Tompkins, Kaylon Wood;

Pride -- Leann Wills;

Princeton -- Ariell Shield;

Raceland -- Emily Adams, DQuincy McGuire;

Raeford, North Carolina -- Lauren Reilly;

Raleigh, North Carolina -- Aleida Alfonso;

Rayne -- Cameron Desselle;

Rayville -- Emily Rawls, Jennifer Rogers, Mary Rogers, Leslie Sharbono;

Reserve -- Ranata Coxie;

Rhinehart -- Bethany Russell;

Richardson, Texas -- Erin Wrozek;

Richmond, Texas -- Sidney Harris;

Ridgeland, Mississippi -- Jacqueline Fairley-Taylor;

Ringgold -- Alora Bryant, Abram Cook;

River Ridge -- Taylor Young;

Robeline -- Amy Bass, Hunter Dubois, Keira Huff, Bergen Oge, Laura Olguin, Megan Palmer, Rebecca Sparish, Christopher Taylor;

Rogers, Arkansas -- Taylor Bush;

Roseland -- Erin Verberne;

Rosepine -- Emily Camacho;

Rosharon, Texas -- Whitney Washington;

Rowlett, Texas --Daniel Miner;

Ruston -- Irene Hild, Qay'Shon Thurman, Jena Warren;

Saint Francisville – Claire Leming, Kathleen Morse, Katherine Noble, Hannah Prewitt;

Saint Gabriel -- Jainakee Cross;

Saint Ignace, Michigan -- Emilee Keuten;

Saint Martinville -- Blake Blanchard;

San Pedro Sula, Cortes, Honduras -- Jonathan Andino Madrid, Vilma Castro Lopez, Cesia Corrales;

Santa Fe, Texas -- Micaela Bouvier;

Saratoga, Arkansas -- Christie Sain;

Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada -- Loren MacLennan;

Scott -- Tayla Soileau;

Scottsboro, Alabama -- Jessica Provenza;

Scurry, Texas -- Rebecca Blackshear;

Shreveport -- Foster Adams, Phillip Adams, Ashlee Arkansas, Chris Bankson, Angelica Bartlett, Austin Beene, Azhani Bennett, Jessica Bollingham, Hannah Bolton, Alyssa Bonacci, JiKeeriya-Jontay Bowden, Rakeisha Brown, Amanda Charles, Brandon Cockerham, Caitlin Coker, Elizabeth Cook, Colby Cranford, Naterria Davis, Emily Dean, Courtney Dehart, Kimberly Dennis, Kristina Doyal, Jada Dudley, Shalanda Duncan, Hannah Ellis, Reagan Escude, Ronald Evans, Candice Faith, Amye Flair, Sierra Foster, Sterlin, Samantha Freeman, Jamie French, Zachary Fussell, JaSae Gatlin, Rayvin Gaudet, Michael Ghattas, Destinee Green, Lashonda Hall, Madison Harper, Brea Housley, Melinda Hunt, April Hunter, Alyecia Ivory Stills, Ronesha Johnson, Randall Johnston, Lajarious Jones, Demariae Jordan, Molly Kelly, Emalee Kennon, Kaitlyn Knighton, Lakenya Lafitte, Katie Layfield, Hannah Lee, Jay Lester, Brandon Lewis-Graham, William Mahoney, Alaina McMillian, Destiny Mitchell, Damitron Moore, Latravia Mosley, Aaron Navarre,  Maria Ogletree, Haley Peace, Allison Pearah, TreSor Pennington, Jared Perkins, Hayden Pilcher, Laura Pritchard, Lindsey Ray, Patricia Reed, Harrison Reeves, Kendall Reeves, Keyonna Roberson, Ansley Rosett, Caleb Rounsavall, Amanda Rushing, Mallori Sanders, Elizabeth Scott, Lawson Scott, Catherine Shaw, Kathryn Shrader, Mary Sibley, Jackiesha Simmons,  John Slocum, Shelby Sowers, Christa Sprawls, Angel Stewart, Rashima Stewart, Somer Stratton, Amanda Strother, Khalil Sumlin, Destini Sweet, Joyce Taylor, Breyonna Thompson, Albert Tuiel, Kayla Waller, Ilyanna Warlen, Aaliyah Watkins, Dillion Wilkerson, Donald Williams, JeVannica Williams, Suzanne Williams, Emily Wingrove, Morgan Woodall,  Randy Woodle;

Sibley -- Julianna Schober;

Sierner -- Emily George;

Sieper -- Whitney Browning;

Sikes -- Dylan Kelly, Tonya LeBaron;

Simmesport -- Kimani Batiste, Bailie Marsh, Taylor Myers;

Slaughter -- Ciara Gibbs;

Slidell -- Katie Buttner, Robert Carter, William Jensen, John Norvel, Theresa Sharp, Sophia Toranto, Maci Walgamotte, Olivia Warren;

Spring, Texas -- Victoria Harris, Elyssa Hernandez;

Starks -- Triston Bussell,

Stockbridge, Georgia -- Rachel Jeane;

Stonewall -- Hailey Compton, Madison Parker, Chassidy Sutton;

Sugarland, Texas -- Jake Gore;

Sulphur -- Kobe Ardoin, Derek Henry, Bralyn James, Rylie Mcfarlain;

Summerfield, South Carolina -- Alexandria Hughes;

Talihina, Oklahoma -- Heidi Couch;

Texarkana, Texas -- Cody Hambly, Daphne Hammett;

The Woodlands, Texas -- Robyn Beatty, Tyler Rapp;

Thibodaux -- Tierra Johnson;

Tioga -- Hannah Pusateri;

Tomball, Texas -- Kylie Spencer;

Toms River, New Jersey -- Jacqueline Manza;

Trout -- Makayla King, Kalee Mcguffee, Jacie Paul;

Turkey Creek -- Kelsie King;

Tyler, Texas -- De'Shalyn Jones;

Vacherie -- Tameeka Ross;

Vidalia -- Kayla Banks, Charles Johnson;

Vierzon -- Lena Billault;

Ville Platte -- Gabrielle Chapman, Joseph Evans, Hannah Gallow;

Vinton -- Shae Cramer;

Vinton, Texas -- Alexis Frescas;

Virginia Beach, Texas -- Danielle Hill;

Walker -- David Kolb;

Washington -- Halie Briley;

Welsh -- Jordan Durio, Lauren LeDoux;

West Monroe -- Charles Allen, Abigail Beck, Laura Lovell;

Westlake -- Baleigh Derouen,

Wills Point, Texas -- Rebekah Clark;

Winnfield -- Jermesia Anderson, Taylor Burnett, Simona Curry, Trenton Dill, Rhonda Duff, Kerry Fitzgerald, Kara Grantadams, Ieishlia Lynch, Brittany Parker, Katreiona Starks, Caitlin Womack, Caroline Womack, Katy Zimmerman;

Winnsboro -- Hunter Cooper, Darrel Doyle, A'Lexus Johnson;

Woodville -- Tiera Trask;

Woodworth -- Taylor Henry;

Yaroslavl, Russia -- Polina Mutel;

Youngsville -- Randall Blair, Hannah Broussard, Jessica Gilmore, Alexys Hebert, Brian Horton, Devyn Shores;

 Zachary -- Carmeka Cooper, Neil Ahldwin;

 Zwolle -- Holly Laroux, Courtney McDaniel, Konner Parrie, Holden Rivers;

Rebecca Reine.

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The Comment Thread for the previous post

Nash Tysmans Tight tight hugs for you and your family. 1

Yami Pagaran-Dy Condolence Rem1

Jaime Yabut Hernandez Jr Amen. They, too, will be waiting in anticipation of that great day of the Lord. 

ActiveR E de Leon*Hugs Kuya Jaims

Ecca BiMy condolences, Sir.1

Jean MigrasoThank you for sharing Rem..our hearts goes with you and your whole family.1

Lynette Carpio-SerranoHugs from us, Rem.1

Kathrina Lara NavalCondolences to you Sir and to your family 1

Jabez FloresAmen! Thank you for your life, Ninong Lani! 2

Vincent SilardePakikiramay.1

Jose D. VictoleroTrue, indeed, Rem. He had lived his life with much impact in the lives of others2

ActiveR E de LeonThanks Kuya. Miss you very much.

Elaine Quimio VillalinoCondolence1

Maggie AlmoroSending you love and prayers R E de Leon. 1

Honey de PeraltaMy condolences, Rem. Prayers for you and your family.1

Brinks AloCondolences and prayers 1

Cleofe TorresWe praise God for your father's faithful walk with Christ. Condolence,Remi.We wont forget his warm accommodation of us when we visited and slept in your home years ago in La Union.1

Emy GinonLast night Ninong Omar and me, watched Jesus's story based on the gospel of John.So familiar with that gospel, but I better appreciated when the role of Jesus and each artist give life to God's words.Yes, It is finished! Jesus died in obedience to th… See More1

Luz GhernandezAmen... God used your Dad and made an impact in the lives of many...All glory to Him.... They raised you well n your siblings too..2

Erica Gonzales(more hugs)1

ActiveR E de LeonThanks for always being around Doc EK1

Edmund CentenoCondolences, Rem.1

Kitchen KatNakikiramay ako, Rem...1

James Bryner ChuThis is a beautiful hope-filled tribute, Rem. Thank you for sharing. I look forward to meeting your dad in the Morning. May Christ our Lord comfort you and your family through this time of sadness and longing.1

Myrna FloresAMEN AMEN!1

Jaime Manalo IVThis is beautiful. Thanks for sharing this, Sir Rem.

Jonathan Nambu sending our love, prayers, and virtual hugs to you, R E de Leon and the whole family, from me and Thelma Galvez Nambu1

Mark Vincent Nuñez Nakikiramay ako.

Che Medrano Mahigpit na yakap, Sir Rem.1

Eula Garzon Thank you for sharing this. Praying for the family, Rem.1

Eric Ramos Amen Rems. We will miss Sanko Lani very much 1

Adrian Arcega Nakikiramay, Rem.1

Natasha Bondoc Condolences, Sir Rem 1

Chris Linag Pakikiramay sa inyong pamilya, Rem.1

Indirah Dee MacIver Nakikiramay po, Sir Rem.1

Marianne Sopena Condolence Sir. Prayers for his soul1

Gen Viva Prayers, sir Rem. 1

Rainier Cantre My condolences Sir Rem.1

Eustace Karlo Escalante Condolence kuya rem1

Marian Vielle Patience Condolence po, Sir. 1

Ailyn Zabala Cuesta Condolences to the bereaved family.1

Eufemio Agbayani III Nakikiramay po. The Lord be with you always as He has been with your dad1

ActiveR E de LeonThe last church he spoke regularly in was UCCP Tubao, La Union. He taught the sunday school classes before the service.2

Henry VillanuevaAmen. Well done good and faithful servant Ninong Lani. We love you so much.1

Gerard IanCondolence sir1

Celia Dela VinaA touching lovely tribute to your dad, the kuya Lani of the Navs...hugssss to you Rem, your mom and the whole.fam 1

Aleks TanCondolences, Rem The Lord comfort you and your family.1

Geralyn Rigor-HagströmCondolences Sir Rem1

Michi Arcangel-NombradoCondolences, Sir Rem.1

Danny MedinaTwo thumbs up to Kuya Lani.1

Bea DoloresNakikiramay po..1

Danny MedinaHi Rem musta ka na bro. God bless you and accept or sympathy. Condolences to your family1

Jannette PinzonAmen, Rem! Praise God for this Truth! Looking forward to that Grand Reunion in God's unfailing love, grace and faithfulness. Our prayers are with you-- may God's comfort embrace you in this time of grief. 1

Socorro CruzAmen!1

ActiveR E de LeonTe Elsa ingat kayo diyan palagi. Praying.

Danny MedinaHi Rem I miss those days a ACLC long time ago sa LA union noong teeners PA lang kayo Nina Joshua Lee De Leon. Hahaha those were the days.1

Marjan Nur Salonga SalandananNakikiramay sa inyo, Rem!2

Joy Cañas RebulananPraise God for His faithfulness in your father's life, Sir Rem. May God's comfort and peace be with your family at this time.1

Matell LiamsonMy condolences, R E de Leon.1

Gloria SaguitAmen!!!1

Beejay BautistaCondolences to your family1

Fjel MarananWhat a beautiful tribute. Hugs and prayers, best.1

Pamela RodelasMy Condences po..1

Jena Victoria Baril-PiñonCondolences. 1

Krista GarciaCondolences Rem1

Roma Villareal-SantiagoCondolence Rem. *hugs*1

Chinky Lagon MoraldeCondolence, Kuya Rem.1

Geremie M. NobleGlory to God for your father’s life sir R E! Eyes on eternity!1

Mel Mahigpit na yakap, Remi.1

Heidi Colom I am so sorry for your loss. RIP.1

Roo Estrellanes Virtual hugs bro to you and fam.1

Roselle Lijauco-Ibuna Our prayers and condolences1

Arman Capili My condolences to you and your family, Sir Rem R E de Leon...1

Florence Ann De Castro Condolences po... Praying with you.1

Tracy Ortiz Beautiful Rem.1

Yvette Geroleo Condolences Sir Rem and to your family po.

Triccie Cantero condolence to you and your family, Rem.

ActiveR E de Leon Thanks Triccie! I miss hanging out at your shop!1Triccie Cantero R E de Leon those were the days talaga.

Belen Aquino I am thankful because the life he lived is a manifestation of God's love for us. Hugs Rem, Ate Yollie, Joshua, Jonathan and Ate Lita

Belen Aquino R E de Leon miss na namin kayo lalo na si Ate Yollie virtual hugs for her Rem. Oh how we love you with the love of the Lord

Digna Mac Paner Condolences Rem....1

Joel Imbing Ortiz Hugs, Rem! Love & prayers.1

Chard De Vera Condolence and .1

Inez Ponce de Leon condolences and prayers to you and your family1

Jerome Lodevico My deepest condolences insan. Take care and God Bless.1

Irene JoWe will miss Tito Lani so much, para na rin namin siyang naging tatay. Praying for you and your family, Kuya.2

MrsHazel BrunoCondolences 1

Cherry Rose Piñon Condolences, sir.

Dearyll Gonzales Our deepest sympathies

Paolo Garces My sincerest condolences.

Lady Ga Condolence Rem

Regina Layug Rosero Oh, I'm so sorry Rem

Dennis Garcia Thank your Rem for sharing your Dads life to us.

Tatcee Dava Macabuag My condolences

Kharren Palacios Condolences, Sir Rem.

Sunshine Munar Condolence kuya rem ...

Gneel Palines Magno Condolence Bro!

Jean Francis Ayo Barcena nakikiramay, rem. praying for you and your family.

Len Cee When I hear the song "Find Us Faithful", isa si Tito Lani sa naalala ko talaga. He will be missed.1

Jenniliz I. Olarte He lived out Christ, and now will gain greatly in the arms of our Lord—the same One who will comfort and sustain you and your family. Thanks for sharing his legacy of faithfulness. To God be the glory!

Hope Trinidad Condolence Rem and the whole family...take care of Ate Yolly

Duday de Villa-Custodio Condolences, Rem. Sending hugs and prayers to you and your family...

Anna Skat Rau Amazingly said Rem.

Angela Camille Azaña Labiano Prayers and condolences Sir Rem

MindyMax Gironella Padura My sincerest condolences.. Sending prayer Sir Rem1

Ma. Ciejay J. Calara Condolences Rem1

Mila Chu Moving remembering of your Dad. Thanks Rem for sharing. Our prayers are with you and Yolly and the entire family.1

Lanie Suguitan 1

Jaykee Jaykes Our sincerest sympathy to the whole family, Remi...Jk&deo1

Sheena Lozada Balite Condolences po Sir Rem! 1

Ning Matulac Seven last words as gleaned from your dear departed father’s life. My condolences Remi and family, yes he will be with those risen from the dead to be with the Risen Lord.1

Rico Pamplona Condolence & prayers for you, Rem & the whole family. I’ll surely miss your Dad.

Andie Cosio condolence Sir Rem...

Rowie Quincena Jucal Our condolences Rem and to your family... surely we will miss Sanko Lani

Mariel Kierulf Asiddao Condolences Rem, this is a beautiful tribute to your dad

Gloria Saguit Amen!!! To God be the glory !!!

Marion Renolla Retuerne i thank God upon every rembrance of you...we love you,ate n the 3 boys(men n pala)...hugs

Norilyn Carpio With deep sympathy and sadness with you and your family Rem. Lalo na ke ate Yollie.Walang pag sidlan ng lungkot ang pag kawala ng dad mo at kuya namin. Wala ring pagsidlan ang saya na kaparte kami sa pamilya nyo.It is a great honor Rem...thank you!… See More

Casey Copengco So sorry for your loss Rem. My condolences.

Antonina Ruth Bruno What a beautiful tribute to a man of God! Praying that the Lord Jesus Will Comfort your heart and those of your family at this time. My mom went home to be with Jesus 2 years ago and I'm always reminded of the hope we have, because Easter was her favor… See More1

Joanne C. Marges Nakikiramay, Kuya Rem.

Wendy Clare Beautifully said...the resurrection means all the more when our saved loved ones go ahead of us. Praying for comfort here and a joyful reunion on the other side whenever the Lord sees fit to take you home. <><1

Tommy Matic IV My most sincere condolences Rem.

Nem CastroCondolence Sir Rem and family!

Elnora Ebillo Condoling with you and family Rem. May His peace that passes all undersranding be in your hearts.

Cecile Bacarisa Fajardo Sorry for your loss sir rem

Pearl Bambico-estrada The wound is deep, remi, your words made me cry while reading... but after reading, the wound may heal but i don't know when, because kuya lany have really touched our hearts and our lives.... we love you all...1

Chin Chin Condolence, sir.

Avie Olarte Our deepest condolence to the family .. rest in everlasting peace aurea and benny olarte and family

Milagros Racacho Baldemor Our deepest sympathy on your loss. Praying for his eternal repose.

Bett E. Ram Our condolences Remi, may he rest in peace

Mya Rosos-Tenorio Praying for the family.

Cheska Kyx Young Pakikiramay po at panalangin para sa inyo Sir at sa inyong pamilya.

Mabel Sudaprasert Sincere condolences to you and your family, Rem...

Emerita Trases It such a great blessing to be a part of your family.

Janice Dalaza Baradi condolence po.

Clerisse Payson Condolences to you and your fam, sir!

Cheska TaculodCondolences sayo Kuya Rem... God’s comfort and peace be upon you..

Sier C Menis Condolence Rem

Moki Magpantay Condolences bro

Franco Antonio Regalado My condolences.

Burt Gabot My deepest condolences, Red. I know exactly how you feel.

Gege Cruz Sugue Thank you for sharing this, Rem.

Leovic Arceta Condolences.

Alexa Lhei prayers

OLa Paula Condolence

Niña Irene Reyes Condolences Kuya Rem and fam

Ronito Regacho Ting Condolence Rem...RIP po Tito

Michael Lim Thank you, Rem. May it be that in death as in life, he may usher people into God’s kingdom.Til we meet again!

Grace Marie B Gonzales Condolences and prayers

Fely Medina Gonzalgo Condolence rem we are one with you in your loss.

Romualdo Picar De Ocampo Condolence Rem!Paul said,I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7)

Bernadette Ruth Milagros Orencia-biasbas Condolence Rem...

Mildred Moscoso My heart goes out to you and your family, Rem. May the Lord send you His comfort during these times.

Elsie Coloma We Will Miss u Brother/Compadre

Jean Tumanon Condolence Rem and to the whole family. Praying for God’s comfort.

Maria Celeste Habito Cadiz A life well lived and given. Prayers for his eternal rest and comfort for his loved ones left behind.

Joanna Victolero Blessed by this post po, kuya Rem. Condolence po to the family. Praying for everyone po

Sharon Corpuz Aytona Condolence Rem..

Kate Palma de Jesus Prayers for his eternal rest..

Kristopher Dela Cruz Condolences bro and fam.

Romeo Hernandez Nakikiramay ako sa inyong pamilya Rem salamat sa magandang naiwang alala ng inyong Tatay sa pamilya nyo at sa maraming tao na natulungan nia isa na ang pamilya namin. Sobrang na blessed kami sa buhay ni Lani at ni yoly n sa inyong magkakapatid. Ang huling talk namin ni Lani ng irequest nia na paano simulan ng formal na program ang grupo sa cubao bilang isang church. At nagawa naman nia i hope magpatuloy ang grupo at isang magandang alala sa ating lahat ang kaniyang ginawa. Salamat Rem sa naipost mo nkaka touch naman again tanggapin nyo ang aming taos pusong pakikiramay sa inyong pamilya.

Drew Santos Condolences Rem and to your family.

Julie Holmes Reeves So sorry for your loss!! Glad he knew Jesus!! Hugs your way!!

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Trailer Oficial: C´MON C´MON

Joaquin Phoenix viene de regreso bajo la batuta de Mike Mills, el actor interpreta a un periodista de radio que tiene que cuidar a su sobrino, cuyo padre se encuentra lidiando con problemas de salud mental. Continue reading

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JSCC Spring Semester Honor Roll Announced

Spring Semester Honor Roll Announced

 Jackson, Tenn (June 21, 2017) – The Office of Admissions and Records at Jackson State Community College released the honor roll for the Spring 2017 semester. On the honor roll, there were 307 full-time students who achieved a quality point average over 3.00. There were 381 students who made the dean’s list by achieving a quality point average of 3.50 or better.

 Honor Roll is reserved for students who are enrolled for twelve (12) or more hours of college-level work (Learning Support excluded) and who complete a semester’s work with a quality point average between 3.00 and 3.49.

Dean’s List is reserved for students who are enrolled for twelve (12) or more hours of college-level work and who complete a semester’s work with a quality point average between 3.50 and 4.00.

JSCC Dean’s List Spring 2017

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BENTON

Dylan Blake Furr

Tanner David Johnson

Kaitlyn Annette Page

William C Vick

John Henry Benjamin York

CARROLL

Samantha Madison Barrow

Kristina Marie Cannon

Kimberly Ryan Canoy

Jonathan Thomas Cash

Leslie Marie Cathey

David Michael Deloach

Samantha Leigh Ferguson

Scott Eugene Force

Kalee Jo Fountain

Whitney Nicole Hicks

Dan Ellsworth Hoffman

Carl William Joyner

Kirsten L Joyner

Mitchell Brandon McCartney

Cheyenne Harley Moran

Rachel E Noles

Russell Lee Noles

Deborah Ann OBryant

Steven Hunter Peterson

Lacy Jolene Pride

Channa Larame Ragsdale

Alysia Marlana Shear

Sarah C Taylor

Brittany Nicole Watson

Brittany Nicole Webb

Matthew Tyler Williams

Michael Elihu Wilson

Christopher Wesley Wood

CHESTER

James Howard Barber

Trae Daniel Brewer

Loleta Dorilean Carothers

David Gaddy Carroll

Christopher Edward Cox

Landon Thomas Cupples

McKinley Brooke Farley

Ashley Michelle Faulkner

Ashley Dianne Frye

Johnny Alfred Glass

Heath S Graves

Cameron Lane Greer

CHESTER continued:

Tori Brooke Hill

Haley Elaine Hughes

Coty Alan Laudermilk

Brooklyn Rene Miller

Peyton Randal Millner

Carlee Elizabeth Morris

Brand Edward Nicolay

Kenneth E Page

Eva Perez

Colton L Plunk

Reba Marie Price

Chase Colton Ross

Caitlin Jenee Sanchez

Michael Sinclair Segerson

Ezekiel Joesph Smith

Kendyl Dawn Smith

Peyton Wesley Stewart

Amber Dawn Thompson

Sydney Blair Watson

Marcus Lee White

COFFEE

Ryan Yates Dye

CROCKETT

Jesus Aguirre

Telisa Shuntel Brown

Jill Anna Castellaw

Aaron Christopher Dennison

Kelsey Ann Gadberry

Meleah Rose Gateley

Michelle Lynn Jones

Candice Woods Kellough

Anthony Chance Lovelace

Jennifer Mooney

Whitney M Revelle

Micah C Riley

Ana Julissa Rios

Kayce Abigail Stallings

DAVIDSON

Latoya Antionette Gibbs

DECATUR

Whitlee Adraianna Camper

Lauren Ashlee Hays

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Kyla Bree Linton

Stephanie Lynn Mitchell

Jessica Brooke Patton

Macy Camille Sumler

Decatur continued:

Bryan Wood Swafford

Misty R Swindle

Brandon M White

DYER

Talia Suzanne Alley

Dalton Wayne Harrison

Cara Lee Rose

Erica D Tipps

Chloe Jo West

GIBSON

Peyton Charles Adams

Karen Nicole Allen

Bryan Kevin Barnett

Seth Brayden Burchett

Dylan Warner Cole

Kendall Nicole Cox

Michael Scott Evans

Robert Mcgregor Fly

Andrew Joseph Gordon

Nicholas Grant Gutierrez

Hailey Brooke Hudgings

Kahmadre Jay-Quan Hudson

Hannah B Hutchison

Ryan Daniel Jones

Kaitlyn Michelle Kelly

Ryan Dennison Mayfield

Amy Alison McCoy

Madison Brooke Michael

Sa&#39;Liyah Ann Newbill

Andrew Lloyd Oliver

Samantha Kelly Palmer

Ashley McClain Pierce

Alexander Popp

Benjamin Douglas Powell

Dylan Ray Powers

Jonathan Chase Prescott

Courtney Michelle Reese

Katelyn Nicole Rickman

Crystal Lee Rogers

Tasha N Romero

Gage Michael Schneeberger

Brooklyn Victoria Schrupp

Katherine Michelle Stephens

Hunter Michael Taylor

Michael Sean Threadgill

Colton R Tucker

Katherine Walters

Deonte Tyshawn Watson

HARDEMAN

Alexis Rebekah Beibers

Hannah Rose Black

Tyler D Callahan

Rachel Elise Davis

Austin Wade Greene

Luz D Gutierrez

Katlin Leigh Kelley

William Stewart Koimn

Brittany L Luttrell

Hannah Grace Scott

Marissa Drew Thweatt

Carly Rae Weems

HARDIN

Dustin Blake Ayers

Teara Genea Bearden

William Warren Bond

Amber Nicole Bowling

James Caleb Crotts

Kaylee Renea Gillis

Julia Renee Hall

Chandler Davis Harris

Caden Charles Holt

Savanna Cheyenne Liford

Sarah Ann Marshall

Katy Carroll Nix

Samantha Dawn Oaks

Sasia Sewilta Patterson

Savana Rae Payne

Hannah Lynne Roberts

Amanda Grace Sandusky

LauraAnn M Shiver

Jodie Lee Smith

Kaila Grace Smith

Lauren G Smith

Peggy Ann Snyder

Jessica Lee Ann Stricklin

Alexis Alley Thurman

Jennifer Michelle Vandiver

Destiny Brooke Weeks

Alison R Whaley

JSCC Dean’s List Spring 2017

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Haley LeAnne White

Kanesha L Wright

HAYWOOD

Henry Stanley Clement

Mary Catherine Currie

Presley Grace Gaters

Danielle Nicole House

HAYWOOD continued:

Caroline Elizabeth Newcom

Elizabeth Blair Simpson

Ashton Muriel Taylor

Kristin Brooke Turner

Emily H Wright

HENDERSON

Anthony Glynn Anderson

Jaclyn Devin Arnold

Andrew B Austin

Bethany Jo Autry

Emily Gore Baughn

Trent Cavalier Beacham

Justin Andrew Brown

Molly Brooke Brown

Leighann Nicole Burkett

Eduardo Carreto-Salgado

Charles Michael Carrington

Lauren Rae Cole

Tonie L Coleman

Emily Anne Dyer

Paul Leo Fowler

Cassidy O Garner

Johnathan Keith Goodman

Melissa Allean Gray

Andrew Garrett Grice

Bethany G Hayes

Crystal Renee James

Haley Nichole James

Kristen F Lawler

Sarah Michelle Lindsey

Abigail Marie Maness

Morgan Elizabeth Maness

Jessica Brooke Montgomery

Fernando Gonzales Munoz

Vanessa Ann Nelms

Jimmy Hunter Powell

Katelynn Allison Nichole Pratt

Allyson C Reeves

Alyssa L Reeves

Kaley Elizabeth Rogers

Jacob Daniel Smith

Kersten L Springer

Dalton Bryce Womack

HENRY

Samantha Frances Dixon

Taylor Brooke French

Seth Zachary Gibbs

Courtland Nicole Hester

David Penick

HUMPHREYS

Ashley Nicole Bates

LAUDERDALE

Andrew Carver Dunavant

Conner Clayton McLemore

John Daniel Moore

Jakara L Snipes

MADISON

Remoun Abdo

Cassidi Grace Adams

Malarie Alexander

Sajedah Alghunaim

Rami Amer Al-Jafari

Kimbrielle Elise Allen

Kaitlan Sheree Anthony

Faith Selene Atherton

Colin Andrew Barnett

Marietta Nicole Barnett

Sydney Taylor Brookshire

Ethel Louise Brown

Megan Fairchild Buehler

Michael Aaron Campbell

Jessica Dianne Carter

LeeAnne Madison Clement

Rachael Merriem Clenney

Curtis Andrew Cobb

Jacqueline Brooke Cole

Vania Evette Comer

Claire Allison Cooke

Humberto Coronado

JSCC Dean’s List Spring 2017

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Alberto Coronado Chavez

Christian Taylor Cotner

Melissa Anne Craigie

Sarah Mae Craigie

Jarius Okuria Curry

Kiley Renee Douglas

Sarah Elizabeth Droke

Diana Steffy Escober

Chloe Nicole Espitia

Jessica Danielle Gibson

Damian Jordan Gladney

Zia Goli

MADISON continued:

James Tucker Goodwin

Sydney Gail Grammer

Brianna Madison Gregory

Eric Michael Gunn

Olivia Marie Guzzo

Alex James Haggard

Marshall Britton Hammill

Korean Nichele Harris

Garry E Harvey

Sarah Elaine Harvey

Amanda Nicole Haynes

Berlie Grace Hieagle

Edith Charity Horst

Cody Lynn Hunt

Kayla Nichole Johnson

Kassidy Blair Jones

Hailey Renee Jones

Meagan Hope Kitchen

Janelle Nicole Kyle

JuliaAnne Frances Lansdale

Dillion Robert Larimore

Patrisha Dannielle Leadbetter

Sarah Fulton Lim

Philippe Lumpkin

Lance Austine McElroy

Michael Todd McFadden

Natalie Mendoza

Blanca Estela Mireles Valdez

Madison Marie Montchal

Michael Lee Montgomery

Stephen Houston Morse

Belinda Sue Murchison

Andrew Steven Murley

Justin Robert Mutschler

Callyn Leonard Nims

Rebekah June Pennington

Nicholas Anthony Pica

Brittney Michelle Pickens

Anthony Daniele Previtera

Paige Marie Ramage

Teena Maree Rea

Nicolas N Reyes

Anna Belle Robertson

Xavius K Robinson

Eric Lee Rooks

Rachel Elizabeth Royer

Adriana Salinas

John Louis Santana

Sandra Shari Santiago-Bullington

Heaven Leigh Schatz

MADISON continued:

Tempestt Bernice Seward

Hailey Elizabeth Shephard

Joseph Michael Shephard

Mya Taylor Spivey

Allison Claire Stutts

Victoria Lynn Subia

Kimberly Nichole Sullivan

Brooklyn Marie Taylor

Debra Taylor

Allison Faith Thomas

Robert Mikael Utley

Ryne Vinson

Jordan Breanne Warren

Kenneth Connor Weaks

Clay E Webb

Kaylyn Alyra Weddle

Jacob Dylan Weidner

Destiny Marie Westbrook

Elizabeth Renee Williams

Ashton Vernard Willis

Kameron Dean Wilson

Noah Alyssa Wilson

Brooke Ashlyn Woodard

Brinlea Madison Woodard

Ryan K Woods

Alexander Ryan Wortham

Jeremy Dean Yates

Kelci Nicole Zabriskie

McNAIRY

Kathrine Rose Atkinson

Joanna Elizabeth Barlow

Jonathan Ray Bauer

Carrie Elizabeth Clausel

JSCC Dean’s List Spring 2017

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Haylie Marissa Crum

Elizabeth Hope Doucette

Shelbi Elise Doucette

Eric Ryan Gowler

Evan Parker Harris

Kateryna Kucherenko

Warren Austin Lowrance

Mary-Elizabeth Adale Lyons

Payton James Mast

Elizabeth Nicole Miller

Andrew Vinson Pettit

Tamara A Pickens

Samuel Reid Pierce

Jacob Alan Qualls

Ashton Brooks Rich

Josiah David Rininger

McNAIRY continued:

Dakota LeighAnn Russell

Angela Michelle Taylor

Jon Michael Williams

OBION

Stevie Brooke Mers

PERRY

Sandra Marie Dicks

SHELBY

Ian Jose&#39; Bibiloni

Nicholas Jordan Blankenship

Issac James

Brandon Tyler Maxwell

Michael Hoang Nguyen

TIPTON

Theresa Donyelle Allison

Carlye Kay Dixon

WAYNE

Amy Lois Bartlett

Brittany Nikole Bunch

Jessica Gable

Nicholas Caden Grace

WEAKLEY

Tom Eric Jehnzen

Lyndsey Brooke Scott

 JSCC HONOR ROLL SPRING 2017

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BENTON

Lindsey Nicole Baker

Michael Keith Coady

Corina Nicole Hensley

Jearleh Generale Obas

Justin Lee Smothers

Kelsey Jordan Yates

CARROLL

Kallie Cheyenne Berry

Hannah Olivia Boroughs

Jennifer Renee Bratton

Stephanie Marie Brown

Layla Dawn Byrum

James Zach Cagle

Meagan Renee DeLaney

Joshua Cody Douglas

Austin Chase Ezell

Chadwick Heath Futrell

Hunter Lynn Harris

Sara Beth Hayes

Kaitlyn E McAlpin

Jackie F McClain

Hannah Lea McWilliams

Charles Neil Prestwood

Charles Neil Prestwood

Jazzlyn Janae Ray

Michael Ray Rogers

Kelsey Layne Runions

Rachel N Sellers

Heath D Spain

Riley N Toombs

Kasey M White

Amanda Michelle Williams

Danielle Leigh Williams

Kevin Wayne Williams

Kelsey L Wortham

CHESTER

Brianna Gayle Allen

Erin Michelle Barnes

Zackary Jordan Bethune

Jonathan Trey Ervin

Sydney Taylor Frank

Kelsey Lynne Grissom

Haley Cheyenne Hardwick

Morgan Elizabeth Hays

Bayley Madison Holder

CHESTER continued:

Austin Tyler Holman

Dylan Wesley King

William James Lampley

Dustin William Tyler Montgomery

Austin Edward Moore

Amber Shalane Mosley

Jaylan Dewayne Northern

Jared Patrick Page

Christine LaShae&#39; Puckett

Trenity B Puente

Cody Allen Riley

Kendall Anne Shaw

Payton A Wilkinson

CROCKETT

Yulissa Bautista

Makalah Carter Buckner

Hilary Brooke Butler

Yeltsin Chapina

Meraleigh Peyton Holland

Erin Yessenia Juarez

Kevin Scott Kail

Anthony J Merriweather

Joseph Braden Nace

Lauren Breanna Pender

Lionardo Sanchez

Seth Daniel Shewmaker

Kordell Jay Smith

DAVIDSON

Lee Rice

DECATUR

Brett William Bell

Jesse Alan Burns

Morgan Anna Crews

Lacey Leann Hicks

Geovany Jimenez

Jacob Christopher Maness

Tiffani Cheyenne Shea

Kayleigh Morgan Smith

Jase Lee Taylor

Jordan C Tubbs

DICKSON

Leslie Ann Darrow

JSCC HONOR ROLL SPRING 2017

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DYER

Elizabeth Ann Fisher

Allison C Hodge

Kyndal Riddick

Chari A Swift

FAYETTE

Jaleesa Shavon Blade

Kelsey Roxanne Wilson

GIBSON

Reagan Wesley Barnhart

Bethany Carol Lynn Bolin

Kayla Gabrielle Bowie

Seth Everett Brown

Zachary Monroe Case

Lila Marie Cauley

Andrew Tyler Chambers

Andria Marey Cole

Charles Benjamin Coleraine

Madison Paige Ellis

Taina Bronjour Escalera

Carly A Fry

Heather Michelle Frye

Emily Jerene Galvan

Melissa D Goodrich

Alyssa Faith Hartig

Matthew Davis Hawks

Braydon Gregory Hendrix

Baylea Alexandra Holmes

Olivia Langston Hunt

Rachel Nicole Jones

Amanda D Littleton

Lauren Elizabeth Miller

Raquel Taylor Miranda

Austin Eli Moore

Jessica N Paz

Haley Nicole Rainey

Kayla Michelle Reeves

Anna Sison

Kyle Martin Trompower

Mackenna Grace Upchurch

Bailey Anne Vandiver

Brandt Gage Wright

HAMILTON

Austin Zinkann

HARDEMAN

Luis Santiago Ayala

Kamryn Nicole Brown

Kenylsha D Bryant

Lashara Shavay Burkley

Megan Ashley Caicedo

Ethan Scott Grantham

Timothy Landon Lee Harris

Joshua M Kennamore

Michael Brandon Knepp

Rianna V Lewis

Christopher Z Luciano

Keylon D Muex

Andrea Lashae Mullins

Keanna Monee Pirtle

Patric D Stewart

HARDIN

Taylor Brooke Alexander

Bailey Reese Brasher

Jenny Marie Briley

Alyssa Mariah Dilday

Ricki Kay Lynn Ford

Ryan Mitchell Guyer

Tori Ann Haggard

Austin Wade Henson

Makaila Cheyenne Keymon

Dustin Kane Moore

Mickay Vaschelle Qualls

Jefferson Charles Rey

Serenate N Searles

Jordan Luke Sledge

Elizabeth Diane Talley

Delaney Jean Timberman

Ronita D Walker

HAYWOOD

Brooklyn Paige Anderson

John Burton Friedman

Jennifer Marie Hendrix

Amye Ann Pitts

Nakesia Monique Shephard

Leigh Anne Stanley

JSCC HONOR ROLL SPRING 2017

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HENDERSON

Jordan Ray Bartholomew

Adam Clayton Briggs

Timothy Dovone Clark

Martice Daniel Crawford

Drake Daniel Eason

Jacob Alan Ewell

Zachary Robert Haynes

Shanna L Lindsey

Destiny Lanette Moody

Alaina Elizabeth Moore

Jordan L Morris

Jessica Marie Nowell

William Survan Pickering

Eli Tyler Plunk

Dylan Frank Powers

Holly Duncan Pratt

Brandi Sheree Reeves

Caitlin Ashlee Scott

Samuel Paul Shannon

Jacob Randall Thomas

Lyndsey P Tosh

Haven Nicole Trull

Emily Nicole Vinson

Trevor Chase Wood

Lilly M Woods

Trey M Wright

HENRY

Erika N Barlow

Brianna Leigh Houlle

Allie Joy Murphy

Chelsea N Phifer

Holly Nicole Potts

Rachel Gayle Ragan

David Ian Sarnik

Rachel Tioni Silvester

Mikala Cheyenne Spry

LAKE

Joel Tyler Estes

LAUDERDALE

Beau Bradford Simpson

Kolie J Smith

Simonne Janae Snipes

LEWIS

Kenzie Owen

MADISON

Brittany Zinelle Anderson

Samuel Davis Anderson

Isaac H Andrews

Amie Lee Scales Autrey

Crystal Linda Autry

Mark Anthony Bedwell

Matthew Elliot Blackwell

Shelbi Leigh Bond

Cameron D&#39;Anne Briley

Chelsea Lane Brown

Hunter Daniel Brown

Marcus Wayne Brown

Ryan Mitchell Butler

Kimberly Renee Carpenter

Richard Jacob Crosnoe

Yulissa DeLaCerda

Mouhamd Elsebae

Hunter Mckinley Finan

Eric Nicholas Forsythe

Russell E Fowler

Brooke Lauren George

James Jacob Gross

Olivia Grace Hall

Jayda McKenzie Hampton

Christian Carter Hays

Janet Diane Hilliard

Angel Mae Hodgin

Brian Jacob Honey

Haleigh Elizabeth Hooper

Garrett Carson Jeanes

James Edward Johnson

Kalesha Rachelle Jones

Shalanda Denise Jones

Jessica Ellen Kirby

Dylan Alexander Kyle

Shea Elizabeth LaFont

Annabel Leon

Bishop Jones Lewis

Elizabeth E Macon

Hunter Allen Massey

Banks Christian Mayo

Jacob Lee McCord

Abby Leigh McNeal

Michael Patrick Mills

JSCC HONOR ROLL SPRING 2017

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MADISON continued:

Jacob Weston Morford

Jennifer Lynn Nieves

Lauren Marie Nieves

Ryan Joseph Palmatier

Carson Mitchell Parker

Chiquita Lashon Perry

Shainia Danielle Perry

Jessica Lynn Pittman

Andrew Christopher Pope

Naydelin Ramirez-Gonzalez

Desiree Ransom

Kaylee Renae Riddle

Cheterra Nicole Rogers

Julie Amanda Rouse

Joshua Bryant Shuford

Allison Taylor Smith

Mia Kayley Spivey

William A Swift

Christina Leigh Tall

Zachary Chase Taylor

Nicholas ONeil Teague

Anna June Thompson

Blake Martin Tims

Shelby M Tisdale

Hayden L Towater

Kayla Jordan Vaughn

Jesse A Williamson

Taylor Nicole Willis

Haley Nicole Worsham

Sarah Janine Yelverton

MAURY

Joshua Avery Frantz

McNAIRY

Tina Bailey Bennett

Brandon Kyle Brown

Jacob Ryan Cox

Kendall Shae Dickerson

Zachary Alan Howell

Sarah Elizabeth Hurst

Caleb Tate Kennedy

William Homer Lescheck

Landon Troy McAfee

Anna Marie Moore

Megan Nichole Morris

Haven D Phelps

Krista D Ray

Joshua Lee Shelby

Lauren Elizabeth Steele

Emily Katherine Surratt

MONTGOMERY

Kayla Renee Bradley

Michelle Amber Donner

Lucas W Veltri

OBION

Kristian Alisha Davis

Bethany N Workman

PERRY

William Blake Qualls

SHELBY

Sadler Allen Goodwin

Marcus Andrew Lytle

Annamarie B Pugh

WAYNE

Jerrica Katline Hicks

WEAKLEY

Brennen Zachary Cobb

Denise Rae Cook

Audrey Louise Grooms

Jeffery Lynn Hampton

Starr Anne Petersen

Lawson Michael Roberts

WHITE

Darin Reed Cole

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Lost On The Frontline

America’s health care workers are dying. In some states, medical staff account for as many as 20% of known coronavirus cases. They tend to patients in hospitals, treating them, serving them food and cleaning their rooms. Others at risk work in nursing homes or are employed as home health aides.

Some of them do not survive the encounter. Many hospitals are overwhelmed and some workers lack protective equipment or suffer from underlying health conditions that make them vulnerable to the highly infectious virus.

Many cases are shrouded in secrecy. “Lost on the Frontline” is an ongoing project by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian that aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who died from COVID 19, and to investigate why so many are victims of the disease.

These are some of the first tragic cases.

  Lost On The Frontline

This project aims to document the life of every health care worker in America who dies from COVID-19. If you have a colleague or loved one we should include, please share their story.

  Surgical Technician Made Friends Everywhere She Went

(Courtesy of Jorge Casarez)

Monica Echeverri Casarez

Age: 49 Occupation: Surgical technician Place of Work: Detroit Medical Center Harper University Hospital in Detroit Date of Death: April 11, 2020

Monica Echeverri Casarez was in constant motion, said her husband, Jorge Casarez. The daughter of Colombian immigrants, she worked as a Spanish-English interpreter in clinical settings. She was the kind of person whose arrival at a mom and pop restaurant would elicit hugs from the owners. She also co-founded Southwest Detroit Restaurant Week, a nonprofit that supports local businesses.

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Twice a month, she scrubbed in as a surgical technician at Harper University Hospital. “She liked discovering the beauty of how the body works and how science is clear and orderly,” Casarez said. She was organized and intuitive, qualities that are assets in the operating room. On March 21, she posted a photo of herself in protective gear with the caption: “I’d be lying if I said I wan’t at least a bit nervous to be there now.” Since many elective surgeries had been canceled, Echeverri Casarez was tasked with taking the temperatures of people who walked into the hospital and making sure their hands were sterilized.

Soon after, Echeverri Casarez and Casarez began feeling ill. Quarantined together, Echeverri Casarez tried to make the best of the situation. She baked her husband a cake — chocolate with white frosting. She died a few days later.

— Danielle Renwick, The Guardian | Published April 24, 2020

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A Whip-Smart Neurologist Endlessly Fascinated With The Brain

(Courtesy of Jennifer Sclar)

Gary Sclar

Age: 66 Occupation: Neurologist Place of Work: Mount Sinai Queens in New York City Date of Death: April 12, 2020

Gary Sclar was a whip-smart neurologist who loved comic books, “Game of Thrones” and “Star Wars,” said his daughter, Jennifer Sclar. He was deeply compassionate with a blunt bedside manner.

“My dad was fascinated with the brain and with science,” Jennifer Sclar said. “His work was his passion, and it’s what made him the happiest, besides my brother and me.” Set to retire in June, he was looking forward to writing about politics and neurology.

Gary Sclar saw patients who were showing COVID-19 symptoms and knew his age and underlying health conditions ― he had diabetes — put him at risk for developing complications from the illness. His daughter pleaded with him to stop going to the hospital.

In early April, he mentioned having lost his sense of smell, and on April 8 he collapsed in his home. He was hospitalized a few days later and agreed to be intubated. “I don’t think he realized, like, that this was the end,” Jennifer Sclar said. “He brought his keys. He brought his wallet.”

— Danielle Renwick, The Guardian | Published April 24, 2020

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An Exacting But Loving Aunt, She Was A Mentor Until The End

(Courtesy of Jhoanna Mariel Buendia)

Araceli Buendia Ilagan

Age: 63 Occupation: Intensive care unit nurse Place of Work: Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Date of Death: March 27, 2020

For Jhoanna Mariel Buendia, her aunt was a constant ― if distant — presence. Araceli Buendia Ilagan emigrated from their hometown Baguio, in the Philippines, to the U.S. before Buendia was born, but she remained close to her family and communicated with them nearly every day.

“She was one of the smartest people I ever knew,” Buendia, 27, said. Buendia Ilagan, who at one point looked into adopting her niece so she could join her and her husband the United States, encouraged Buendia to become a nurse, and talked her through grueling coursework in anatomy and physiology. Buendia is now a nurse in London.

Buendia Ilagan was also demanding. “Whenever she visited the Philippines, she wanted everything to be organized and squeaky-clean,” Buendia said.

The last time the two spoke, in late March, Buendia Ilagan didn’t mention anything about feeling ill. Instead, the two commiserated over their experiences of treating patients with COVID-19; as always, her aunt offered her advice on staying safe while giving the best possible care. She died four days later.

— Danielle Renwick, The Guardian | Published April 22, 2020

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A Beloved Geriatric Psychiatrist And Church Musician Remembered For His Cooking Skills

(Courtesy of Nida Gonzales)

Leo Dela Cruz

Age: 57 Occupation: Geriatric psychiatrist Place of Work: Christ Hospital and CarePoint Health in Jersey City, New Jersey Date of Death: April 8, 2020

Dr. Leo Dela Cruz was nervous about going to work in the weeks before he died, his friends said. Like many in the region, Christ Hospital had an influx of COVID-19 patients and faced a shortage of ventilators and masks.

Dela Cruz was a geriatric psychiatrist and didn’t work in coronavirus wards. But he continued to see patients in person. In early April, Dela Cruz, who lived alone, complained only of migraines, his friends said. Within a week, his condition worsened, and he was put on a ventilator at a nearby hospital. He died soon after.

Friends said he may have been exposed at the hospital. (In a statement, hospital representatives said he didn’t treat COVID-19 patients.)

Dela Cruz, the oldest of 10 siblings, came from a family of health care professionals. His friends and family — from Cebu, Philippines, to Teaneck, New Jersey — remembered his jovial personality on Facebook. He won “best doctor of the year” awards, played tennis and cooked traditional Cebu dishes.

Nida Gonzales, a colleague, said he always supported people, whether funding a student’s education or running a church mental health program. “I feel like I lost a brother,” she said.

— Ankita Rao, The Guardian | Published April 22, 2020

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Alabama Nurse Remembered As Selfless But Sassy

(Courtesy of Amanda Williams)

Rose Harrison

Age: 60 Occupation: Nurse Place of Work: Marion Regional Nursing Home in Hamilton, Alabama Date of Death: April 6, 2020

Rose Harrison, 60, lived to serve others ― her husband, three daughters, grandchildren and the residents of the nursing home where she worked. Though the Alabama nurse was selfless, she also had a sassy edge to her personality and a penchant for road rage, her daughter, Amanda Williams said.

“Her personality was so funny, you automatically loved her,” Williams said. “She was so outspoken. If she didn’t agree with you, she’d tell you in a respectful way.”

Harrison was not wearing a mask when she cared for a patient who later tested positive for COVID-19 at Marion Regional Nursing Home in Hamilton, Alabama, her daughter said. She later developed a cough, fatigue and a low-grade fever, but kept reporting to duty all week. Officials from the nursing home did not return calls for comment.

On April 3, Williams drove her mother to a hospital. The following evening, Harrison discussed the option of going on a ventilator with loved ones on a video call, agreeing it was the best course. Williams believed that her mother fully expected to recover. She died April 6.

— Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | Published April 22, 2020

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Connecticut Social Worker Had Angelic Singing Voice And A Zest For Life

(Courtesy of the Hunt family)

Curtis Hunt

Age: 57 Occupation: Social worker Places of Work: Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center and New Reach, both in New Haven, Connecticut Date of Death: March 23, 2020

At a shelter for adults recovering from addiction, residents looked forward to the days when Marion “Curtis” Hunt would take the stage, emceeing talent shows and belting out Broadway and gospel tunes.

It wasn’t part of his job description as a social worker. It was just one of the ways he went “above and beyond,” said his supervisor at Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, Daena Murphy. “He had a beautiful voice,” she said. “He was just a wonderful person — funny, engaging, always a huge smile on his face.”

Hunt, the youngest of four brothers, earned his master’s in social work from Fordham University at 52, and was baptized at his brother’s Pentecostal church at 54. He was a devoted uncle who doted on his dog and cat, Mya and Milo.

It’s unclear how Hunt got infected, but one patient he worked with had tested positive for COVID-19, as did two co-workers, according to Dr. Ece Tek, another supervisor at Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center. Hunt died on March 23, one week after developing flu-like symptoms, said his brother John Mann Jr.

— Melissa Bailey | Published April 22, 2020

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To The End, King-Smith Was Driven By A Desire To Help Others

(Courtesy of Hassana Salaam-Rivers)

Kim King-Smith

Age: 53 Occupation: Electrocardiogram technician Place of Work: University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey Date of Death: March 31, 2020

Kim King-Smith was a natural caregiver. An only child, she grew up close to her extended family, including her cousins Hassana Salaam-Rivers and Sharonda Salaam. After Salaam developed multiple sclerosis, King-Smith visited her every day.

“She’d bring her sweets that she wasn’t supposed to have and share them with her,” Salaam-Rivers said. King-Smith’s desire to care for others was the reason she became an electrocardiogram technician, her cousin added. “If a friend of a friend or family member went to the hospital, she would always go and visit them as soon as her shift was over,” she said.

In March, King-Smith cared for a patient she said had symptoms of COVID-19; she soon fell ill herself and tested positive for the virus. It seemed like a mild case at first, and she stayed in touch with family via FaceTime while trying to isolate from her husband, Lenny.

On March 29, Salaam-Rivers checked in on her cousin and noticed she was struggling to breathe. She urged her to call an ambulance. After King-Smith was hospitalized, she exchanged text messages with her mother and cousin. As the day progressed, her messages carried increasingly grave news, Salaam-Rivers said. Then she stopped responding.

— Danielle Renwick, The Guardian | Published April 22, 2020

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On The Eve Of Retirement, VA Nurse Succumbs To COVID-19

(Courtesy of Mark Accad)

Debbie Accad

Age: 72 Occupation: Clinical nursing coordinator Place of Work: Detroit VA Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan Date of Death: March 30, 2020

Nurse Divina “Debbie” Accad had cared for veterans for over 25 years and was set to retire in April. But after contracting the novel coronavirus, she spent her final 11 days on a ventilator — and didn’t survive past March.

She joined a growing list of health care professionals working on the front lines of the pandemic who have died from COVID-19.

Accad, 72, a clinical nursing coordinator at the Detroit VA Medical Center, dedicated her life to nursing, according to her son Mark Accad.

“She died doing what she loved most,” he said. “That was caring for people.”

She was born Divina Amo in the Philippine town of Alimodian, known for its sweet bananas. The eldest of four children, she was a precocious student. She finished high school at age 14 and had to wait a year to pursue her dream of nursing school. She graduated from Central Philippine University with a bachelor’s in nursing in 1969.

Yearning to move abroad, she applied to a “fly now, pay later” program for nurses and landed a job in Chicago, joining tens of thousands of Filipino nurses who have migrated to the United States. She later moved to Taylor, Michigan, where she married William Accad in 1985 and raised four children with him.

Her niece April Amada lives in Accad’s hometown. She remembers her aunt as a generous cook: A visit from Tita Debbie (Aunt Debbie) meant unli-kainan, or “unlimited food”: She served up big American breakfasts, cooked spicy kielbasa with cabbage and introduced her family to Jell-O.

Accad was the “pillar of the family,” Amada said, improving their quality of life by sending home money, and even supporting her younger sister through nursing school.

Amada said her aunt first signaled she was sick on the evening of March 16, telling relatives she had a fever and loose stool. On March 19, she reported feeling better by taking Tylenol. But the following day, she was hospitalized with pneumonia, a complication of COVID-19. She told her family in the Philippines that she had tested positive for the disease caused by the coronavirus and asked them to pray for her and to spread the word to local pastors, Amada said.

Amada, who is also a nurse, said her family felt helpless watching their beloved matriarch suffer from afar, and being unable to travel to her bedside because of the infectious nature of the disease. They last saw her face on a video call.

Mark Accad, 36, who lives across the street from his parents, said his mother had diabetes, a risk factor for serious complications from COVID-19. In her last phone call with him, he said, she was preoccupied with her family’s health more than her own. But he could hear in her voice that she was worried.

“It’s just terrible that we all couldn’t be there for her,” he said.

Mark Accad said he believes his mother was exposed by infected co-workers, though that hasn’t been confirmed. She was a nursing supervisor who often stepped in to care for patients, he said.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is facing serious shortages in protective equipment for its health care workers, according to internal memos obtained by The Wall Street Journal. Mark Accad said he doesn’t know whether his mother had adequate protective gear.

In a statement, the Detroit VA Medical Center declined to comment on Accad’s case, citing privacy concerns, but confirmed that an employee of her age died from coronavirus complications.

The VA has “implemented appropriate measures to ensure the safest health care environment for each Veteran, visitor and employee,” including immediately isolating patients known to be at risk for a COVID-19 infection. As of Monday, nine VA health care workers systemwide had died of COVID-19 complications, and over 1,500 were being quarantined because of coronavirus infections, according to VA spokesperson Christina Noel.

Mark Accad said he would like his mother’s story to raise awareness of the risks health care workers face in the global pandemic.

“She’s a hero for what she did,” he said.

— Melissa Bailey | Published April 15, 2020

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California Nurse Thrived In ER and ICU, But Couldn’t Survive COVID-19

(Courtesy of the Baumbach family)

Jeff Baumbach

Age: 57 Occupation: Nurse Place of Work: St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton, California Date of Death: March 31, 2020

Jeff Baumbach, 57, was a seasoned nurse of 28 years when the novel coronavirus began to circulate in California. He’d worked in the ER, the ICU and on a cardiac floor. Hepatitis and tuberculosis had been around over the years but never posed a major concern. He’d cared for patients who had tuberculosis.

Jeff and his wife, Karen Baumbach, also a nurse, initially didn’t consider it significantly riskier than challenges they’d faced for years.

“He’d worked in the ICU. He was exposed to so many things, and we never got anything,” she said. “This was just ramping up.”

One day during work, Jeff sent a sarcastic text to his wife: “I love wearing a mask every day.”

Within weeks, he would wage a difficult and steady fight against the virus that ended with a sudden collapse. Across the U.S., dozens of other health care workers have died, according to reports compiled by The Guardian and Kaiser Health News. The CDC has not yet issued a full tally, and many states have said little about how many health workers are dying.

Jeff was working at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton, California, about an hour south of Sacramento, where he was a case manager for Kaiser Permanente patients treated there. (Kaiser Health News is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.)

In mid-March, Jeff and his wife traveled to New York City to help their younger son, one of four adult children, settle into an apartment. As they were leaving, bars and restaurants were starting to shut down. The feeling set in that something serious was taking place.

Back home, Karen said her husband was notified that he may have been around a co-worker who tested positive for the coronavirus. Jeff would need to wear a mask. On March 23, he called in sick. The next day, he was told to get a COVID-19 test.

Jeff’s test was positive. Soon after, so was Karen’s. The couple hunkered down together at home, Karen with body aches and congestion and Jeff with a fever and cough.

Their home had been the site of countless family brunches and barbecues, for which Jeff was often the chef. It was where he solved massive jigsaw puzzles with his kids, sealed them together and put them on the ceiling of the garage.

Kaila Baumbach, 26, the last child living in their Lodi home, had moved out as a precaution. She and her dad were close. They had gotten tattoos together on a family trip to Hawaii. Hers, a peace sign. His had two large Celtic hearts and four smaller ones to represent his children. Kaila said she didn’t text or call her dad when he was sick.

“I thought he was invincible,” she said during a phone interview, through tears.

Karen took Jeff to the emergency room on March 26, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia, but chose to recuperate at home. On March 31, he collapsed in an upstairs bathroom.

“It was just like that,” Karen said. “It went downhill really fast.”

Karen called 911 and went with him to Adventist Health Lodi Memorial, the hospital where she worked. She sat in her car getting updates by phone. Kaila waited in another car.

The ventilator Jeff was connected to had little effect and he remained unresponsive.

When it seemed hopeless, Karen went in, suited with full protective medical gear, and told Jeff, her husband of 33 years, she loved him. The kids love him. And she was sorry.

“We both sat here all those days with him getting worse before my eyes and me not seeing it,” she said. “The doctor reassured me that several times people have seemed to be OK and then they just fall off and then it’s just too late.”

Karen returned home alone, still in quarantine.

The next day, Kaila organized about 50 family and loved ones to drive by the couple’s home and shine their phone flashlights to show support. Karen’s mother, Sharleen Leal, called her at 8 p.m.: “Look outside.”

Karen looked out an upstairs window. Lights from lines of cars going in both directions on the avenue shone bright. Grieving, and awash with gratitude, she cried.

— Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | Published April 15, 2020

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Nurse’s Faith Led Her To Care For Prisoners At A New Jersey Jail

(Courtesy of Denise Rendor)

Daisy Doronila

Age: 60 Occupation: Nurse Place of Work: Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearny, New Jersey Date of Death: April 5, 2020

Daisy Doronila had a different perspective than most who worked at the Hudson County Correctional Facility, a New Jersey lockup 11 miles from Manhattan. It was a place where the veteran nurse could put her Catholic faith into action, showing kindness to marginalized people.

“There would be people there for the most heinous crimes,” said her daughter, Denise Rendor, 28, “but they would just melt towards my mother because she really was there to give them care with no judgment.”

Doronila, 60, died April 5, two weeks after testing positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The jail has been hit hard by the virus, with 27 inmates and 68 staff members having tested positive. Among those, another nurse, a correctional officer and a clerk also died, according to Ron Edwards, Hudson County’s director of corrections.

Doronila fell ill before the scope of the jail infections were known. She was picking up extra shifts in the weeks before, her daughter said, and planning on a trip to Israel soon with friends from church.

That plan began to fall apart March 14, when someone at the jail noticed her coughing and asked her to go home and visit a doctor.

Doronila, of Nutley, New Jersey, went to her doctor and a local hospital in the coming days but was told she had strep throat, so she wouldn’t get a coronavirus test. Then she was told her fever wasn’t high enough to merit a test.

Edwards, the jail chief, said Doronila offered to come back to work after she started feeling ill, not wanting to let him down. He told her to stay home and rest.

“She was one of my hardest workers,” he said, describing her as sophisticated, intelligent and compassionate. “Daisy could handle herself. If someone got obnoxious with her, she’d put them in their place and call for help if she needed to.”

As days went by in March, her condition got worse. Feeling breathless, she went to an urgent care center on March 21.

Her oxygen saturation level was 77 ― far below levels that should be close to 100 — so she was sent by ambulance to the hospital. The next day, she was transferred to the ICU, where she was put on a ventilator, never to talk to her family again.

Rendor, who was not allowed to visit her mother, said time crawled as she awaited updates from nurses and doctors.

On her fifth day in the hospital, her mother went into cardiac arrest and was revived. On Day Nine, she was put on dialysis.

By Day 14, it was futile.

Rendor said her mother emigrated from the Philippines as a young nurse. She loved to dress in fashionable clothes and eat seafood on the waterfront in New York City.

The two loved to shop together and were looking forward to the next chapters in life. For the mother, retirement at 65. For Rendor, marriage and perhaps starting her own family.

“It was about to get really, really good,” Rendor said.

— Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | Published April 15, 2020

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An Army Veteran, Hospital Custodian ‘Loved Helping People’

(Courtesy of Michelle Wilcox)

Alvin Simmons

Age: 54 Occupation: Environmental service assistant Place of Work: Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, New York Death: March 17, 2020

Alvin Simmons started working as a custodian at Rochester General Hospital, in New York state, weeks before he fell ill. “He loved helping people and he figured the best place to do that would be in a hospital,” his sister, Michelle Wilcox said.

An Army veteran who had served in the first Gulf War, Simmons loved karaoke and doted on his three grandchildren, Wilcox said. “He was a dedicated, hardworking individual who had just changed his life around” since a prison stint, she said.

According to Wilcox, Simmons began developing symptoms shortly after cleaning the room of a woman he believed was infected with the novel coronavirus. “Other hospital employees did not want to clean the room because they said they weren’t properly trained” to clean the room of someone potentially infected, she said. “They got my brother from a different floor, because he had just started there,” she said. (In an email, a hospital spokesperson said they had “no evidence to suggest that Mr. Simmons was at a heightened risk of exposure to COVID-19 by virtue of his training or employment duties at RGH.”)

On March 11, he visited the emergency room at Rochester General, where he was tested for COVID-19, Wilcox said. Over the next few days, as he rested at his girlfriend’s home, his breathing became more labored and he began to cough up blood. He was rushed to the hospital on March 13, where he was later declared brain-dead. Subsequently, he received a COVID-19 diagnosis. Simmons died on March 17.

— Danielle Renwick, The Guardian | Published April 15, 2020

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Nurse At Nevada VA Dies After Caring For Infected Colleague

(Courtesy of Bob Thompson)

Vianna Thompson

Age: 52 Occupation: Nurse Places of Work: VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System and Northern Nevada Medical Center in Reno, Nevada Date of Death: April 7, 2020

Nurse Vianna Thompson, 52, spent two night shifts caring for a fellow Veterans Affairs health care worker who was dying from COVID-19.

Two weeks later, she too was lying in a hospital intensive care unit, with a co-worker holding her hand as she died.

Thompson and the man she treated were among three VA health care workers in Reno, Nevada, to die in two weeks from complications of the novel coronavirus.

“It’s pretty devastating. It’s surreal. Reno’s not that big of a city,” said Robyn Underhill, a night nurse who worked with Thompson in the ER at Reno’s VA hospital the past two years.

Thompson, who dreamed of teaching nursing one day, died April 7, joining a growing list of health care professionals killed in the pandemic.

Born Vianna Fye in Port Huron, Michigan, she became a go-getter nurse who worked almost exclusively at night, putting in five or six 12-hour shifts a week, according to her husband, Bob Thompson, 60.

The couple met in 1991 on the Osan Air Base in South Korea, where he was an inventory management specialist in the Air Force, and she was a veterinary technician in the Army, caring for military police dogs. They bonded over two-step dancing and country music.

Vianna was a “proud momma,” often showing off photos and videos of their three sons on her phone, her husband said. As the main breadwinner for over eight years, she juggled two jobs to make sure her boys had everything they needed, including saxophones, drums and keyboards so they could play jazz and country music. “She was just sweet, big-hearted, caring, unselfish,” he said.

Before she died, Thompson was working two jobs: full time in the ER at the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System in Reno, and part time in the ICU at Northern Nevada Medical Center.

In the ICU, she tended to a fellow VA health care worker who had fallen ill with COVID-19, according to nurse Underhill. Two days later, on March 29, Thompson arrived at work with a cough.

“She came to work sick, and we were all very concerned,” Underhill said. “Call it intuition, call it ‘Spidey sense,’ but I knew that moment that she was coughing that this was not going to end well.”

Underhill said Thompson already had a slight smoker’s cough, so she may have overlooked the fact that her cough was a classic symptom of COVID-19.

“She was in denial that she was taking care of this high-risk population,” Underhill said. And she was reluctant to miss work.

That Sunday shift would be Thompson’s last. Over the next four days, she wrestled with fever, weakness and shortness of breath. The following Thursday, she texted her husband from the bedroom: “Call the ambulance, I can hardly breathe.”

She was taken to the VA hospital where she worked and immediately sedated and put on a ventilator.

The next Tuesday, her organs were failing and it was time to remove life support, her husband said. They connected him on FaceTime to say goodbye, and a nurse held her hand as she died.

As a veteran, she qualified for an “honor flight,” in which the patient’s body is covered with a black box, draped with an American flag and wheeled through the hospital while others line up and salute.

Because of the infectious nature of the coronavirus, a flag could not be safely draped over her body, so someone walked in front of her with a flag.

Bob Thompson said the honor flight ceremony drew more people into the hallways than staff had seen in 20 years, “all the way from the ICU to the morgue.”

“God’s getting a hell of a nurse,” he said.

— Melissa Bailey | Published April 15, 2020

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Dr. J. Ronald Verrier Was Busy Saving Lives Before The Pandemic

(Courtesy of Christina Pardo)

J. Ronald Verrier

Age: 59 Occupation: Surgeon Place of Work: St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York Date of Death: April 8, 2020

Dr. J. Ronald Verrier, a surgeon at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, spent the final weeks of his audacious, unfinished life tending to a torrent of patients inflicted with COVID-19. He died April 8 at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside, New York, at age 59, after falling ill from the novel coronavirus.

Verrier led the charge even as the financially strapped St. Barnabas Hospital struggled to find masks and gowns to protect its workers — many nurses continue to make cloth masks — and makeshift morgues in the parking lot held patients who had died.

“He did a good work,” said Jeannine Sherwood, a nurse manager at St. Barnabas Hospital who worked closely with Verrier.

“He can rest.”

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Verrier graduated from the Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie in 1986 and trained at Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx. He worked at St. Barnabas for two decades, performing thousands of surgeries on critically ill patients and trauma victims, while overseeing the general surgery residency program.

A towering presence with a wide, dimpled smile, Verrier watched his large flock closely — popping into patients’ rooms for impromptu birthday parties, pressing his medical school residents to sharpen their surgical skills and extinguishing doubt in bright, young minds.

“He kept pushing me forward,” said Dr. Christina Pardo, a cousin who became an obstetrician and gynecologist. “I would call him and say, ‘I swear I failed that test,’ and he would laugh. He was my confidence when I didn’t have it.”

“He was someone you’d love to see if you were having a bad day,” said Dr. Ridwan Shabsigh, chairman of the Department of Surgery at SBH Health System. “He would comfort your heart.”

The Verrier family stretches across continents — a boisterous crew of cousins who grew up as brothers and sisters, a pot of joumou, a spicy Haitian soup, always boiling somewhere.

Verrier, who spoke English, French and Creole, zipped around to a niece’s wedding in Belgium, a baptism in Florida, another wedding in Montreal. In February, he ferried medical supplies to Haiti, returning to St. Barnabas to fortify the hospital for the surge of coronavirus patients.

Verrier helped steer the hospital’s efforts to increase — by 500% — the number of critically ill patients it could care for, an effort he worked on until he became ill.

“He was at the hospital every day,” Shabsigh said. “This was a nonstop effort, day and night.”

Verrier discovered he was infected in early April. After developing symptoms, he worked from his Woodmere, New York, home.

Undaunted, he did not want to talk about being sick. “He has this personality that, ‘Everything is going to be OK,’” said Pardo.

Shabsigh spoke with him the day before his death.

“He understood the coronavirus, he understood the pandemic,” he said. “He still maintained a high morale and hope that he would recover.”

When his condition worsened suddenly, according to Pardo, Verrier was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital where he died.

After a powerful earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, Verrier tended to victims, treating dozens of patients who required amputations at a Port-au-Prince hospital.

“Sometimes you use a little anesthesia and you cut the limb,” Verrier said soberly in a video recorded at the time. “Because you have to save a life.”

— Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News | Published April 15, 2020

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America’s First ER Doctor To Die In The Heat Of COVID-19 Battle

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Frank Gabrin

Age: 60 Occupation: Doctor Places of Work: St. John’s Episcopal in Queens, New York, and East Orange General in New Jersey Date of Death: March 26, 2020

At about 5 a.m. on March 19, a New York City ER physician named Frank Gabrin texted a friend about his concerns over the lack of medical supplies at hospitals.

“It’s busy ― everyone wants a COVID test that I do not have to give them,” he wrote in the message to Eddy Soffer. “So they are angry and disappointed.”

Worse, though, was the limited availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) — the masks and gloves that help keep health care workers from getting sick and spreading the virus to others. Gabrin said he had no choice but to don the same mask for several shifts, against Food and Drug Administration guidelines.

“Don’t have any PPE that has not been used,” he wrote. “No N95 masks ― my own goggles — my own face shield,” he added, referring to the N95 respirators considered among the best lines of defense.

Less than two weeks later, Gabrin became the first ER doctor in the U.S. known to have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians.

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— Alastair Gee, The Guardian | Published April 10, 2020

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This story is part of “Lost on the Frontline,” a project from The Guardian and Kaiser Health News that aims to document the life of every health care worker in America who dies from COVID-19 during the pandemic. If you have a colleague or loved one we should include, please share their story.

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Lost On The Frontline

America’s health care workers are dying. In some states, medical staff account for as many as 20% of known coronavirus cases. They tend to patients in hospitals, treating them, serving them food and cleaning their rooms. Others at risk work in nursing homes or are employed as home health aides.

Some of them do not survive the encounter. Many hospitals are overwhelmed and some workers lack protective equipment or suffer from underlying health conditions that make them vulnerable to the highly infectious virus.

Many cases are shrouded in secrecy. “Lost on the Frontline” is a collaboration between The Guardian and Kaiser Health News that aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who die of COVID-19, and to understand why so many are falling victim to the pandemic.

These are some of the first tragic cases.

  Lost On The Frontline

This project aims to document the life of every health care worker in America who dies from COVID-19. If you have a colleague or loved one we should include, please share their story.

  Surgical Technician Made Friends Everywhere She Went

(Courtesy of Jorge Casarez)

Monica Echeverri Casarez

Age: 49 Occupation: Surgical technician Place of Work: Detroit Medical Center Harper University Hospital in Detroit Date of Death: April 11, 2020

Monica Echeverri Casarez was in constant motion, said her husband, Jorge Casarez. The daughter of Colombian immigrants, she worked as a Spanish-English interpreter in clinical settings. She was the kind of person whose arrival at a mom and pop restaurant would elicit hugs from the owners. She also co-founded Southwest Detroit Restaurant Week, a nonprofit that supports local businesses.

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Twice a month, she scrubbed in as a surgical technician at Harper University Hospital. “She liked discovering the beauty of how the body works and how science is clear and orderly,” Casarez said. She was organized and intuitive, qualities that are assets in the operating room. On March 21, she posted a photo of herself in protective gear with the caption: “I’d be lying if I said I wan’t at least a bit nervous to be there now.” Since many elective surgeries had been canceled, Echeverri Casarez was tasked with taking the temperatures of people who walked into the hospital and making sure their hands were sterilized.

Soon after, Echeverri Casarez and Casarez began feeling ill. Quarantined together, Echeverri Casarez tried to make the best of the situation. She baked her husband a cake — chocolate with white frosting. She died a few days later.

— Danielle Renwick, The Guardian | Published April 24, 2020

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A Whip-Smart Neurologist Endlessly Fascinated With The Brain

(Courtesy of Jennifer Sclar)

Gary Sclar

Age: 66 Occupation: Neurologist Place of Work: Mount Sinai Queens in New York City Date of Death: April 12, 2020

Gary Sclar was a whip-smart neurologist who loved comic books, “Game of Thrones” and “Star Wars,” said his daughter, Jennifer Sclar. He was deeply compassionate with a blunt bedside manner.

“My dad was fascinated with the brain and with science,” Jennifer Sclar said. “His work was his passion, and it’s what made him the happiest, besides my brother and me.” Set to retire in June, he was looking forward to writing about politics and neurology.

Gary Sclar saw patients who were showing COVID-19 symptoms and knew his age and underlying health conditions ― he had diabetes — put him at risk for developing complications from the illness. His daughter pleaded with him to stop going to the hospital.

In early April, he mentioned having lost his sense of smell, and on April 8 he collapsed in his home. He was hospitalized a few days later and agreed to be intubated. “I don’t think he realized, like, that this was the end,” Jennifer Sclar said. “He brought his keys. He brought his wallet.”

— Danielle Renwick, The Guardian | Published April 24, 2020

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An Exacting But Loving Aunt, She Was A Mentor Until The End

(Courtesy of Jhoanna Mariel Buendia)

Araceli Buendia Ilagan

Age: 63 Occupation: Intensive care unit nurse Place of Work: Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Date of Death: March 27, 2020

For Jhoanna Mariel Buendia, her aunt was a constant ― if distant — presence. Araceli Buendia Ilagan emigrated from their hometown Baguio, in the Philippines, to the U.S. before Buendia was born, but she remained close to her family and communicated with them nearly every day.

“She was one of the smartest people I ever knew,” Buendia, 27, said. Buendia Ilagan, who at one point looked into adopting her niece so she could join her and her husband the United States, encouraged Buendia to become a nurse, and talked her through grueling coursework in anatomy and physiology. Buendia is now a nurse in London.

Buendia Ilagan was also demanding. “Whenever she visited the Philippines, she wanted everything to be organized and squeaky-clean,” Buendia said.

The last time the two spoke, in late March, Buendia Ilagan didn’t mention anything about feeling ill. Instead, the two commiserated over their experiences of treating patients with COVID-19; as always, her aunt offered her advice on staying safe while giving the best possible care. She died four days later.

— Danielle Renwick, The Guardian | Published April 22, 2020

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A Beloved Geriatric Psychiatrist And Church Musician Remembered For His Cooking Skills

(Courtesy of Nida Gonzales)

Leo Dela Cruz

Age: 57 Occupation: Geriatric psychiatrist Place of Work: Christ Hospital and CarePoint Health in Jersey City, New Jersey Date of Death: April 8, 2020

Dr. Leo Dela Cruz was nervous about going to work in the weeks before he died, his friends said. Like many in the region, Christ Hospital had an influx of COVID-19 patients and faced a shortage of ventilators and masks.

Dela Cruz was a geriatric psychiatrist and didn’t work in coronavirus wards. But he continued to see patients in person. In early April, Dela Cruz, who lived alone, complained only of migraines, his friends said. Within a week, his condition worsened, and he was put on a ventilator at a nearby hospital. He died soon after.

Friends said he may have been exposed at the hospital. (In a statement, hospital representatives said he didn’t treat COVID-19 patients.)

Dela Cruz, the oldest of 10 siblings, came from a family of health care professionals. His friends and family — from Cebu, Philippines, to Teaneck, New Jersey — remembered his jovial personality on Facebook. He won “best doctor of the year” awards, played tennis and cooked traditional Cebu dishes.

Nida Gonzales, a colleague, said he always supported people, whether funding a student’s education or running a church mental health program. “I feel like I lost a brother,” she said.

— Ankita Rao, The Guardian | Published April 22, 2020

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Alabama Nurse Remembered As Selfless But Sassy

(Courtesy of Amanda Williams)

Rose Harrison

Age: 60 Occupation: Nurse Place of Work: Marion Regional Nursing Home in Hamilton, Alabama Date of Death: April 6, 2020

Rose Harrison, 60, lived to serve others ― her husband, three daughters, grandchildren and the residents of the nursing home where she worked. Though the Alabama nurse was selfless, she also had a sassy edge to her personality and a penchant for road rage, her daughter, Amanda Williams said.

“Her personality was so funny, you automatically loved her,” Williams said. “She was so outspoken. If she didn’t agree with you, she’d tell you in a respectful way.”

Williams was not wearing a mask when she cared for a patient who later tested positive for COVID-19 at Marion Regional Nursing Home in Hamilton, Alabama, her daughter said. She later developed a cough, fatigue and a low-grade fever, but kept reporting to duty all week. Officials from the nursing home did not return calls for comment.

On April 3, Williams drove her mother to a hospital. The following evening, Harrison discussed the option of going on a ventilator with loved ones on a video call, agreeing it was the best course. Williams believed that her mother fully expected to recover. She died April 6.

— Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | Published April 22, 2020

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Connecticut Social Worker Had Angelic Singing Voice And A Zest For Life

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Curtis Hunt

Age: 57 Occupation: Social worker Places of Work: Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center and New Reach, both in New Haven, Connecticut Date of Death: March 23, 2020

At a shelter for adults recovering from addiction, residents looked forward to the days when Marion “Curtis” Hunt would take the stage, emceeing talent shows and belting out Broadway and gospel tunes.

It wasn’t part of his job description as a social worker. It was just one of the ways he went “above and beyond,” said his supervisor at Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, Daena Murphy. “He had a beautiful voice,” she said. “He was just a wonderful person — funny, engaging, always a huge smile on his face.”

Hunt, the youngest of four brothers, earned his master’s in social work from Fordham University at 52, and was baptized at his brother’s Pentecostal church at 54. He was a devoted uncle who doted on his dog and cat, Mya and Milo.

It’s unclear how Hunt got infected, but one patient he worked with had tested positive for COVID-19, as did two co-workers, according to Dr. Ece Tek, another supervisor at Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center. Hunt died on March 23, one week after developing flu-like symptoms, said his brother John Mann Jr.

— Melissa Bailey | Published April 22, 2020

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To The End, King-Smith Was Driven By A Desire To Help Others

(Courtesy of Hassana Salaam-Rivers)

Kim King-Smith

Age: 53 Occupation: Electrocardiogram technician Place of Work: University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey Date of Death: March 31, 2020

Kim King-Smith was a natural caregiver. An only child, she grew up close to her extended family, including her cousins Hassana Salaam-Rivers and Sharonda Salaam. After Salaam developed multiple sclerosis, King-Smith visited her every day.

“She’d bring her sweets that she wasn’t supposed to have and share them with her,” Salaam-Rivers said. King-Smith’s desire to care for others was the reason she became an electrocardiogram technician, her cousin added. “If a friend of a friend or family member went to the hospital, she would always go and visit them as soon as her shift was over,” she said.

In March, King-Smith cared for a patient she said had symptoms of COVID-19; she soon fell ill herself and tested positive for the virus. It seemed like a mild case at first, and she stayed in touch with family via FaceTime while trying to isolate from her husband, Lenny.

On March 29, Salaam-Rivers checked in on her cousin and noticed she was struggling to breathe. She urged her to call an ambulance. After King-Smith was hospitalized, she exchanged text messages with her mother and cousin. As the day progressed, her messages carried increasingly grave news, Salaam-Rivers said. Then she stopped responding.

— Danielle Renwick, The Guardian | Published April 22, 2020

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On The Eve Of Retirement, VA Nurse Succumbs To COVID-19

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Debbie Accad

Age: 72 Occupation: Clinical nursing coordinator Place of Work: Detroit VA Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan Date of Death: March 30, 2020

Nurse Divina “Debbie” Accad had cared for veterans for over 25 years and was set to retire in April. But after contracting the novel coronavirus, she spent her final 11 days on a ventilator — and didn’t survive past March.

She joined a growing list of health care professionals working on the front lines of the pandemic who have died from COVID-19.

Accad, 72, a clinical nursing coordinator at the Detroit VA Medical Center, dedicated her life to nursing, according to her son Mark Accad.

“She died doing what she loved most,” he said. “That was caring for people.”

She was born Divina Amo in the Philippine town of Alimodian, known for its sweet bananas. The eldest of four children, she was a precocious student. She finished high school at age 14 and had to wait a year to pursue her dream of nursing school. She graduated from Central Philippine University with a bachelor’s in nursing in 1969.

Yearning to move abroad, she applied to a “fly now, pay later” program for nurses and landed a job in Chicago, joining tens of thousands of Filipino nurses who have migrated to the United States. She later moved to Taylor, Michigan, where she married William Accad in 1985 and raised four children with him.

Her niece April Amada lives in Accad’s hometown. She remembers her aunt as a generous cook: A visit from Tita Debbie (Aunt Debbie) meant unli-kainan, or “unlimited food”: She served up big American breakfasts, cooked spicy kielbasa with cabbage and introduced her family to Jell-O.

Accad was the “pillar of the family,” Amada said, improving their quality of life by sending home money, and even supporting her younger sister through nursing school.

Amada said her aunt first signaled she was sick on the evening of March 16, telling relatives she had a fever and loose stool. On March 19, she reported feeling better by taking Tylenol. But the following day, she was hospitalized with pneumonia, a complication of COVID-19. She told her family in the Philippines that she had tested positive for the disease caused by the coronavirus and asked them to pray for her and to spread the word to local pastors, Amada said.

Amada, who is also a nurse, said her family felt helpless watching their beloved matriarch suffer from afar, and being unable to travel to her bedside because of the infectious nature of the disease. They last saw her face on a video call.

Mark Accad, 36, who lives across the street from his parents, said his mother had diabetes, a risk factor for serious complications from COVID-19. In her last phone call with him, he said, she was preoccupied with her family’s health more than her own. But he could hear in her voice that she was worried.

“It’s just terrible that we all couldn’t be there for her,” he said.

Mark Accad said he believes his mother was exposed by infected co-workers, though that hasn’t been confirmed. She was a nursing supervisor who often stepped in to care for patients, he said.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is facing serious shortages in protective equipment for its health care workers, according to internal memos obtained by The Wall Street Journal. Mark Accad said he doesn’t know whether his mother had adequate protective gear.

In a statement, the Detroit VA Medical Center declined to comment on Accad’s case, citing privacy concerns, but confirmed that an employee of her age died from coronavirus complications.

The VA has “implemented appropriate measures to ensure the safest health care environment for each Veteran, visitor and employee,” including immediately isolating patients known to be at risk for a COVID-19 infection. As of Monday, nine VA health care workers systemwide had died of COVID-19 complications, and over 1,500 were being quarantined because of coronavirus infections, according to VA spokesperson Christina Noel.

Mark Accad said he would like his mother’s story to raise awareness of the risks health care workers face in the global pandemic.

“She’s a hero for what she did,” he said.

— Melissa Bailey | Published April 15, 2020

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California Nurse Thrived In ER and ICU, But Couldn’t Survive COVID-19

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Jeff Baumbach

Age: 57 Occupation: Nurse Place of Work: St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton, California Date of Death: March 31, 2020

Jeff Baumbach, 57, was a seasoned nurse of 28 years when the novel coronavirus began to circulate in California. He’d worked in the ER, the ICU and on a cardiac floor. Hepatitis and tuberculosis had been around over the years but never posed a major concern. He’d cared for patients who had tuberculosis.

Jeff and his wife, Karen Baumbach, also a nurse, initially didn’t consider it significantly riskier than challenges they’d faced for years.

“He’d worked in the ICU. He was exposed to so many things, and we never got anything,” she said. “This was just ramping up.”

One day during work, Jeff sent a sarcastic text to his wife: “I love wearing a mask every day.”

Within weeks, he would wage a difficult and steady fight against the virus that ended with a sudden collapse. Across the U.S., dozens of other health care workers have died, according to reports compiled by The Guardian and Kaiser Health News. The CDC has not yet issued a full tally, and many states have said little about how many health workers are dying.

Jeff was working at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton, California, about an hour south of Sacramento, where he was a case manager for Kaiser Permanente patients treated there. (Kaiser Health News is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.)

In mid-March, Jeff and his wife traveled to New York City to help their younger son, one of four adult children, settle into an apartment. As they were leaving, bars and restaurants were starting to shut down. The feeling set in that something serious was taking place.

Back home, Karen said her husband was notified that he may have been around a co-worker who tested positive for the coronavirus. Jeff would need to wear a mask. On March 23, he called in sick. The next day, he was told to get a COVID-19 test.

Jeff’s test was positive. Soon after, so was Karen’s. The couple hunkered down together at home, Karen with body aches and congestion and Jeff with a fever and cough.

Their home had been the site of countless family brunches and barbecues, for which Jeff was often the chef. It was where he solved massive jigsaw puzzles with his kids, sealed them together and put them on the ceiling of the garage.

Kaila Baumbach, 26, the last child living in their Lodi home, had moved out as a precaution. She and her dad were close. They had gotten tattoos together on a family trip to Hawaii. Hers, a peace sign. His had two large Celtic hearts and four smaller ones to represent his children. Kaila said she didn’t text or call her dad when he was sick.

“I thought he was invincible,” she said during a phone interview, through tears.

Karen took Jeff to the emergency room on March 26, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia, but chose to recuperate at home. On March 31, he collapsed in an upstairs bathroom.

“It was just like that,” Karen said. “It went downhill really fast.”

Karen called 911 and went with him to Adventist Health Lodi Memorial, the hospital where she worked. She sat in her car getting updates by phone. Kaila waited in another car.

The ventilator Jeff was connected to had little effect and he remained unresponsive.

When it seemed hopeless, Karen went in, suited with full protective medical gear, and told Jeff, her husband of 33 years, she loved him. The kids love him. And she was sorry.

“We both sat here all those days with him getting worse before my eyes and me not seeing it,” she said. “The doctor reassured me that several times people have seemed to be OK and then they just fall off and then it’s just too late.”

Karen returned home alone, still in quarantine.

The next day, Kaila organized about 50 family and loved ones to drive by the couple’s home and shine their phone flashlights to show support. Karen’s mother, Sharleen Leal, called her at 8 p.m.: “Look outside.”

Karen looked out an upstairs window. Lights from lines of cars going in both directions on the avenue shone bright. Grieving, and awash with gratitude, she cried.

— Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | Published April 15, 2020

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Nurse’s Faith Led Her To Care For Prisoners At A New Jersey Jail

(Courtesy of Denise Rendor)

Daisy Doronila

Age: 60 Occupation: Nurse Place of Work: Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearny, New Jersey Date of Death: April 5, 2020

Daisy Doronila had a different perspective than most who worked at the Hudson County Correctional Facility, a New Jersey lockup 11 miles from Manhattan. It was a place where the veteran nurse could put her Catholic faith into action, showing kindness to marginalized people.

“There would be people there for the most heinous crimes,” said her daughter, Denise Rendor, 28, “but they would just melt towards my mother because she really was there to give them care with no judgment.”

Doronila, 60, died April 5, two weeks after testing positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The jail has been hit hard by the virus, with 27 inmates and 68 staff members having tested positive. Among those, another nurse, a correctional officer and a clerk also died, according to Ron Edwards, Hudson County’s director of corrections.

Doronila fell ill before the scope of the jail infections were known. She was picking up extra shifts in the weeks before, her daughter said, and planning on a trip to Israel soon with friends from church.

That plan began to fall apart March 14, when someone at the jail noticed her coughing and asked her to go home and visit a doctor.

Doronila, of Nutley, New Jersey, went to her doctor and a local hospital in the coming days but was told she had strep throat, so she wouldn’t get a coronavirus test. Then she was told her fever wasn’t high enough to merit a test.

Edwards, the jail chief, said Doronila offered to come back to work after she started feeling ill, not wanting to let him down. He told her to stay home and rest.

“She was one of my hardest workers,” he said, describing her as sophisticated, intelligent and compassionate. “Daisy could handle herself. If someone got obnoxious with her, she’d put them in their place and call for help if she needed to.”

As days went by in March, her condition got worse. Feeling breathless, she went to an urgent care center on March 21.

Her oxygen saturation level was 77 ― far below levels that should be close to 100 — so she was sent by ambulance to the hospital. The next day, she was transferred to the ICU, where she was put on a ventilator, never to talk to her family again.

Rendor, who was not allowed to visit her mother, said time crawled as she awaited updates from nurses and doctors.

On her fifth day in the hospital, her mother went into cardiac arrest and was revived. On Day Nine, she was put on dialysis.

By Day 14, it was futile.

Rendor said her mother emigrated from the Philippines as a young nurse. She loved to dress in fashionable clothes and eat seafood on the waterfront in New York City.

The two loved to shop together and were looking forward to the next chapters in life. For the mother, retirement at 65. For Rendor, marriage and perhaps starting her own family.

“It was about to get really, really good,” Rendor said.

— Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | Published April 15, 2020

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An Army Veteran, Hospital Custodian ‘Loved Helping People’

(Courtesy of Michelle Wilcox)

Alvin Simmons

Age: 54 Occupation: Environmental service assistant Place of Work: Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, New York Death: March 17, 2020

Alvin Simmons started working as a custodian at Rochester General Hospital, in New York state, weeks before he fell ill. “He loved helping people and he figured the best place to do that would be in a hospital,” his sister, Michelle Wilcox said.

An Army veteran who had served in the first Gulf War, Simmons loved karaoke and doted on his three grandchildren, Wilcox said. “He was a dedicated, hardworking individual who had just changed his life around” since a prison stint, she said.

According to Wilcox, Simmons began developing symptoms shortly after cleaning the room of a woman he believed was infected with the novel coronavirus. “Other hospital employees did not want to clean the room because they said they weren’t properly trained” to clean the room of someone potentially infected, she said. “They got my brother from a different floor, because he had just started there,” she said. (In an email, a hospital spokesperson said they had “no evidence to suggest that Mr. Simmons was at a heightened risk of exposure to COVID-19 by virtue of his training or employment duties at RGH.”)

On March 11, he visited the emergency room at Rochester General, where he was tested for COVID-19, Wilcox said. Over the next few days, as he rested at his girlfriend’s home, his breathing became more labored and he began to cough up blood. He was rushed to the hospital on March 13, where he was later declared brain-dead. Subsequently, he received a COVID-19 diagnosis. Simmons died on March 17.

— Danielle Renwick, The Guardian | Published April 15, 2020

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Nurse At Nevada VA Dies After Caring For Infected Colleague

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Vianna Thompson

Age: 52 Occupation: Nurse Places of Work: VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System and Northern Nevada Medical Center in Reno, Nevada Date of Death: April 7, 2020

Nurse Vianna Thompson, 52, spent two night shifts caring for a fellow Veterans Affairs health care worker who was dying from COVID-19.

Two weeks later, she too was lying in a hospital intensive care unit, with a co-worker holding her hand as she died.

Thompson and the man she treated were among three VA health care workers in Reno, Nevada, to die in two weeks from complications of the novel coronavirus.

“It’s pretty devastating. It’s surreal. Reno’s not that big of a city,” said Robyn Underhill, a night nurse who worked with Thompson in the ER at Reno’s VA hospital the past two years.

Thompson, who dreamed of teaching nursing one day, died April 7, joining a growing list of health care professionals killed in the pandemic.

Born Vianna Fye in Port Huron, Michigan, she became a go-getter nurse who worked almost exclusively at night, putting in five or six 12-hour shifts a week, according to her husband, Bob Thompson, 60.

The couple met in 1991 on the Osan Air Base in South Korea, where he was an inventory management specialist in the Air Force, and she was a veterinary technician in the Army, caring for military police dogs. They bonded over two-step dancing and country music.

Vianna was a “proud momma,” often showing off photos and videos of their three sons on her phone, her husband said. As the main breadwinner for over eight years, she juggled two jobs to make sure her boys had everything they needed, including saxophones, drums and keyboards so they could play jazz and country music. “She was just sweet, big-hearted, caring, unselfish,” he said.

Before she died, Thompson was working two jobs: full time in the ER at the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System in Reno, and part time in the ICU at Northern Nevada Medical Center.

In the ICU, she tended to a fellow VA health care worker who had fallen ill with COVID-19, according to nurse Underhill. Two days later, on March 29, Thompson arrived at work with a cough.

“She came to work sick, and we were all very concerned,” Underhill said. “Call it intuition, call it ‘Spidey sense,’ but I knew that moment that she was coughing that this was not going to end well.”

Underhill said Thompson already had a slight smoker’s cough, so she may have overlooked the fact that her cough was a classic symptom of COVID-19.

“She was in denial that she was taking care of this high-risk population,” Underhill said. And she was reluctant to miss work.

That Sunday shift would be Thompson’s last. Over the next four days, she wrestled with fever, weakness and shortness of breath. The following Thursday, she texted her husband from the bedroom: “Call the ambulance, I can hardly breathe.”

She was taken to the VA hospital where she worked and immediately sedated and put on a ventilator.

The next Tuesday, her organs were failing and it was time to remove life support, her husband said. They connected him on FaceTime to say goodbye, and a nurse held her hand as she died.

As a veteran, she qualified for an “honor flight,” in which the patient’s body is covered with a black box, draped with an American flag and wheeled through the hospital while others line up and salute.

Because of the infectious nature of the coronavirus, a flag could not be safely draped over her body, so someone walked in front of her with a flag.

Bob Thompson said the honor flight ceremony drew more people into the hallways than staff had seen in 20 years, “all the way from the ICU to the morgue.”

“God’s getting a hell of a nurse,” he said.

— Melissa Bailey | Published April 15, 2020

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Dr. J. Ronald Verrier Was Busy Saving Lives Before The Pandemic

(Courtesy of Christina Pardo)

J. Ronald Verrier

Age: 59 Occupation: Surgeon Place of Work: St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York Date of Death: April 8, 2020

Dr. J. Ronald Verrier, a surgeon at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, spent the final weeks of his audacious, unfinished life tending to a torrent of patients inflicted with COVID-19. He died April 8 at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside, New York, at age 59, after falling ill from the novel coronavirus.

Verrier led the charge even as the financially strapped St. Barnabas Hospital struggled to find masks and gowns to protect its workers — many nurses continue to make cloth masks — and makeshift morgues in the parking lot held patients who had died.

“He did a good work,” said Jeannine Sherwood, a nurse manager at St. Barnabas Hospital who worked closely with Verrier.

“He can rest.”

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Verrier graduated from the Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie in 1986 and trained at Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx. He worked at St. Barnabas for two decades, performing thousands of surgeries on critically ill patients and trauma victims, while overseeing the general surgery residency program.

A towering presence with a wide, dimpled smile, Verrier watched his large flock closely — popping into patients’ rooms for impromptu birthday parties, pressing his medical school residents to sharpen their surgical skills and extinguishing doubt in bright, young minds.

“He kept pushing me forward,” said Dr. Christina Pardo, a cousin who became an obstetrician and gynecologist. “I would call him and say, ‘I swear I failed that test,’ and he would laugh. He was my confidence when I didn’t have it.”

“He was someone you’d love to see if you were having a bad day,” said Dr. Ridwan Shabsigh, chairman of the Department of Surgery at SBH Health System. “He would comfort your heart.”

The Verrier family stretches across continents — a boisterous crew of cousins who grew up as brothers and sisters, a pot of joumou, a spicy Haitian soup, always boiling somewhere.

Verrier, who spoke English, French and Creole, zipped around to a niece’s wedding in Belgium, a baptism in Florida, another wedding in Montreal. In February, he ferried medical supplies to Haiti, returning to St. Barnabas to fortify the hospital for the surge of coronavirus patients.

Verrier helped steer the hospital’s efforts to increase — by 500% — the number of critically ill patients it could care for, an effort he worked on until he became ill.

“He was at the hospital every day,” Shabsigh said. “This was a nonstop effort, day and night.”

Verrier discovered he was infected in early April. After developing symptoms, he worked from his Woodmere, New York, home.

Undaunted, he did not want to talk about being sick. “He has this personality that, ‘Everything is going to be OK,’” said Pardo.

Shabsigh spoke with him the day before his death.

“He understood the coronavirus, he understood the pandemic,” he said. “He still maintained a high morale and hope that he would recover.”

When his condition worsened suddenly, according to Pardo, Verrier was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital where he died.

After a powerful earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, Verrier tended to victims, treating dozens of patients who required amputations at a Port-au-Prince hospital.

“Sometimes you use a little anesthesia and you cut the limb,” Verrier said soberly in a video recorded at the time. “Because you have to save a life.”

— Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News | Published April 15, 2020

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America’s First ER Doctor To Die In The Heat Of COVID-19 Battle

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Frank Gabrin

Age: 60 Occupation: Doctor Places of Work: St. John’s Episcopal in Queens, New York, and East Orange General in New Jersey Date of Death: March 26, 2020

At about 5 a.m. on March 19, a New York City ER physician named Frank Gabrin texted a friend about his concerns over the lack of medical supplies at hospitals.

“It’s busy ― everyone wants a COVID test that I do not have to give them,” he wrote in the message to Eddy Soffer. “So they are angry and disappointed.”

Worse, though, was the limited availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) — the masks and gloves that help keep health care workers from getting sick and spreading the virus to others. Gabrin said he had no choice but to don the same mask for several shifts, against Food and Drug Administration guidelines.

“Don’t have any PPE that has not been used,” he wrote. “No N95 masks ― my own goggles — my own face shield,” he added, referring to the N95 respirators considered among the best lines of defense.

Less than two weeks later, Gabrin became the first ER doctor in the U.S. known to have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians.

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— Alastair Gee, The Guardian | Published April 10, 2020

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This story is part of “Lost on the Frontline,” a project from The Guardian and Kaiser Health News that aims to document the life of every health care worker in America who dies from COVID-19 during the pandemic. If you have a colleague or loved one we should include, please share their story.

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