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Solomon Donald, Emergency Medical Technician

16Apr

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Solomon Donald, Emergency Medical Technician

Solomon Donald – an Emergency Medical Technician at Trinitas Regional Medical Center, Elizabeth, New Jersey – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 16 April 2020. Solomon was 41 years old. Solomon Donald, 41, who worked for nine years as an EMT at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth. Donald, a husband and father of two children, also had worked at Saint Barnabas Medical Center as a hyperbaric safety officer in the wound care center. He also served as a basketball coach for the North Plainfield Nothing But Nets organization and was the owner of his own clothing company, Murphy said. "Helping people was his true calling and I know his family and community will miss that the most, may God bless him and each and every one of his...

Margit Buchhalter Feldman, holocaust survivor

15Apr

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Margit Buchhalter Feldman, holocaust survivor

Margit Buchhalter Feldman a Hungarian-American public speaker, educator, activist, and Holocaust survivor – died on April 14, 2020, from COVID-19-related complications. Feldman and her family were placed in a concentration camp in 1944, where her parents were killed immediately. She survived her incarceration after lying about her age, resulting in her being placed in a work camp. She was freed from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945. After moving to the United States, she raised a family and became a public speaker, sharing her experience with students until her death. Margit Buchhalter was born June 12, 1929, in Budapest, Hungary. Her parents were Joseph and Theresa Buchhalter. The family lived in Tolcsva, Hungary. When she was fourteen, the Nazis invaded...

15Apr

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Jesus Antonio Cabrales, General Surgeon

Jesus Antonio Cabrales – a General Surgeon in Cali, Colombia – passed away due to COVID-19. It was reported on April 15, 2020. Cabrales was 68 years old. Jesús Antonio Cabrales, 66, who was a general surgeon at Hospital Mario Correa. Cabrales, a doctor from Barranquilla who had arrived in Cali three months ago, also had a history of smoking and hypertension Source: Las 2 Orillas Please help us in adding details.

15Apr

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Luis Alberto Almaraz, nurse

Luis Alberto Almaraz, a nurse at Gandulfo Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, died due to Covid-19 in April. He was 49. Almaraz lost his life at the Children's Clinic of San Francisco Solano, where he was hospitalized for eight days after he was diagnosed coronavirus symptoms . Almaraz was living in Monte Grande with his wife and children. Source: Diario San Francisco

15Apr

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Helen Damico, littérateur

Helen Damico ‑ a scholar of Old English and Old English literature – passed away on April 14, 2020 after suffering from Covid-19. Damico was a professor emerita at the University of New Mexico, where she began teaching in 1981 and founded the Institute for Medieval Studies. She was previously on the faculty of Brooklyn College and the University of Minnesota. She earned her B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1952, and received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1980. The author of Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition, Damico made important contributions to the study of women in Old English and Old Norse literature, and her work on Wealhþeow is frequently cited. She saw representations of the valkyrie in both Wealhþeow and Grendel's Mothe...

15Apr

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Evelyn Caro, Nurse

Evelyn Caro – a Nurse at Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, Maryland – passed away due to COVID-19. Evelyn was 69 years old. Source: The Baltimore Sun Please help us in adding details.

15Apr

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Jenniffer Davis, Nurse

Jenniffer Davis – a Nurse at Meramec Bluffs Care Center, Ballwin, Missouri – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 15 April, 2020. Officials said Jenniffer Davis was a nurse at Meramec Bluffs for three years. "Jenniffer’s coworkers remember her as a thorough and well-respected nurse who had a smile that could warm any heart," officials said in a statement. "We know that she will be greatly missed by the Meramec Bluffs and Lutheran Senior Services family." Source: KMOV4 Please help us in adding details.

15Apr

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John Ferrarella, Firefighter

John Ferrarella – a Firefighter at Wayne Fire Company 3, Wayne, New Jersey – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. John was 70 years old. John was a Marine, and later a Captain with the Paterson Fire Department, where he was instrumental in the newly developed Paterson EMS system and P.E.M.T.A. He would later serve as the EMT-Basic Program coordinator at Passaic County Community College, an instructor at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute, and was an EMT evaluator. He continued to work as an EMT throughout his long career, and served with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. John also was an instructor for the Bergen County Harley Davidson Motorcycle Program, FDU and Montclair motorcycle programs. Source: Facebook Please help us i...

15Apr

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Oscar Gonzalez, General Physician

Oscar Gonzalez – a General Physician in Cali, Colombia– passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 15 April, 2020. Oscar was 56 years old. Source:Las 2 Orillas Please help us in adding details.

15Apr

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William Henry Gerdts Jr., art historian

William Henry Gerdts Jr. an American art historian and professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Gerdts was the author of over twenty-five books on American art died of complications of the COVID-19 virus, aged 91, on April 14, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. An expert in American Impressionism, he was also well known for his work on nineteenth-century American still life painting. Gerdts was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Beginning in 1945 he attended Amherst College. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst in 1949, Gerdts attended Harvard Law School, but after four days switched to the Department of Fine Arts. There he earned a master's degree in 1950 and a Ph.D. in 1966. Gerdts' professional positions included that of Cura...