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Kevin Bundy, Paramedic

Kevin Bundy – a Paramedic at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Darby Borough, Pennsylvania – passed away due to COVID-19. It was reported on April 14, 2020. Source: Daily Times Please help us in adding details.

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Pam Hughes, nursing assistant

Pam Hughes – a certified nursing assistant and Med Tech at Summit Manor Nursing Home, Columbia, Kentucky – passed away on 13 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Pam was 50 years old. Source: Grissom Martin Funeral Home Please help us in adding details.

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Ann Sullivan, animator

Ann Sullivan an American animator, who primarily worked for Disney Animation died of complications from COVID-19 on April 13, 2020. Born Sara Ann McNeese in Fargo, North Dakota, to Thomas and Helen (Kossick) McNeese. Thomas was an accountant, and Helen was a stenographer. She went to a Catholic school and then to North Dakota State University. She followed her sister to California and enrolled at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. Upon graduating in the 1950s, she began working in the animation paint lab of Disney Studios on films, including Peter Pan. Later, she took a leave of absence to raise her four children. In 1973, she joined Hanna-Barbera. Sullivan returned to Disney around 1987, animating such films as Oliver & Company (1988), The Little Mermaid (1...

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Dennis Gail Peters, electrochemist

Dennis Gail Peters an analytical chemist who specialized in electrochemistry and was named the Herman T. Briscoe Professor at Indiana University in 1975 died of hospital-acquired coronavirus disease 2019 on 13 April 2020. Peters led his own research group at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana until his death in 2020. Peters' research focused on the electrochemical behavior of halogenated organic compounds, more recently moving to focus on transition metal catalysts in regards to the oxidation and reduction of organic species. He authored or co-authored over 210 publications and 5 analytical chemistry textbooks. Dennis Peters was born on April 17, 1937, in Los Angeles, California. He completed his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the California Institute of Tech...

Billy Birmingham, Emergency Medical Technician

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Billy Birmingham, Emergency Medical Technician

Billy Birmingham - an Emergency Medical Technician in Kansas City, Missouri - passed away on 13 April,2020, due to COVID-19. Billy was 69 years old. "Rest in peace brother Billy Birmingham, who gave his life in the line of duty to the citizens of Kansas City, Missouri on this day, Monday, April 13, 2020," the International Association of Firefighter’s tweet said. KCFD Chief Donna Maize also offered her condolences. "I am sad to report that KCFD EMT Billy Birmingham lost his battle with COVID-19 this afternoon," she said in a statement. "He was part of the KCFD family for the past 10 years, but part of the MAST family for many years prior. His passing represents a personal loss to all of us who knew him and cherished both his friends...

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Esequiel “Zeke” Cisneros, Nurse

Esequiel "Zeke" Cisneros – a Psychiatric Registered Nurse at Eastern State Hospital, Medical Lake, Washington – passed away on 13 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Cisneros was 64 years old. Esequiel (Zeke) Cisneros was born in Harlingen, Texas on March 11, 1956 to his parents Ruperto and Anita Cisneros. While in California Esequiel graduated from Oxnard High School and went on to study at Venture College. In 1976 Esequiel joined the Air Force, he was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana. During his time in the Air Force Esequiel practiced as a Dental Specialist. In Idaho Esequiel attended North Idaho College where he received his Nursing License. Esequiel worked as a nurse in both Idaho and Washington for the last thirty-two years. Source: Tribute Ar...

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Benjamin Levin, holocaust survivor

Benjamin Levin a Jewish partisan during World War II, the last surviving member of the Avengers group led by Abba Kovner died on April 13, 2020 from COVID-19. After the war, he joined the Irgun, and was one of the surviving crew members of the Altalena ship. In 1967, he immigrated to the United States. Levin was born in Vilna, then part of the Second Polish Republic. He was the son of Chaim Levin, a local merchant and gourmet food shop owner. After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the family initially fled to the village of Michališki [be] in present-day Belarus. When it became unsafe, the family returned to Vilna and lived in Vilna Ghetto. In 1943, when he was 16 years old, Levin and his older brother Shmuel joined the Avengers (Nokmim) partisan group of...

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Linda Bonaventura, Nurse

Linda Bonaventura – a Nurse at Wildwood Healthcare, Indianapolis, Indiana – passed away on 13 April,2020, due to COVID-19. Linda was 45 years old. She was born in Indianapolis on September 20, 1974 to Kenneth and Dorothy Garrett. Linda graduated from George Washington High School and earned her LPN degree from Ivy Tech. Source: Indystar Please help us in adding details.

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Gil Bailey, radio broadcaster

Gil Bailey –a pioneering Caribbean radio broadcaster, known as the “Godfather of Caribbean Radio” or "Godfather of Reggae Radio" ‑ died on 13 April 2020 from COVID-19. Bailey was born in the Airy Castle village in Jamaica's St. Thomas Parish in 1936. In 1957, at the age of 21, he moved to London, where he gained employment as MC at Count Suckle's Cue Club. In 1967 Bailey relocated to New York where he married Pat Bailey. Pat and Gil started broadcasting in 1969, leasing time on WHBI in Newark.

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Jerry Givens, executioner

Jerry Bronson Givens–the chief executioner of Virginia from 1982 until 1999, during which he executed 62 people, including two of the Briley Brothers – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on April 13, 2020. He spent most of his career in Virginia's correctional system, and was initially a supporter of capital punishment. However, beginning in 1999, he served four years in prison for perjury and money laundering. This experience, together with the revelation that Earl Washington Jr., whom Givens had nearly executed in 1985 before his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, was innocent, transformed Givens into an outspoken opponent of the death penalty, which he spent the rest of his life campaigning against. He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-1...