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Fayez Khalid Ayache, General Practitioner
9Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Fayez Khalid Ayache, General Practitioner

Fayez Khalid Ayache – a General Practitioner with North Clacton Medical Group, Clacton-on-Sea, England – passed away due to COVID-19 on April 8, 2020. Fayez was 77 years old. GP Fayez Khalid Ayache, 77, who worked part-time at the North Clacton Medical Group died of coronavirus on April 8, 2020. His family said he was admitted to hospital and tests came back positive for coronavirus on April 4, 2020. He died four days later. Dr Ed Garratt, Executive Lead for the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System, said: “Fayez Ayache was a much loved and very highly regarded GP who had made a massive contribution to the NHS since he arrived in the UK from Syria nearly half a century ago “Any death connected to this horrendous virus is a tragedy, bu...
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Henry Graff, historian
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Henry Graff, historian

Henry Franklin Graff - an American historian who served on the faculty of Columbia University from 1946 to 1991, including a period as Chairman of the History Department – died on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Graff specialized in the history of the Presidency of the United States and of American foreign relations. His pioneering “Seminar on the Presidency,” one of Columbia’s most popular courses, was attended by President Harry Truman in 1959 and President Gerald Ford in 1989. Graff has twice served as Chairman of the Pulitzer Prize jury in American history. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Graff to the National Historical Publications Commission, and in 1993 President Bill Clinton appointed Graff to the President John F. Kennedy Assassina...
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Yaakov Perlow, rabbi
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Yaakov Perlow, rabbi

Yaakov Perlow, an American rabbi, passed away on 7 April,2020 due to COVID-19. Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 16, 1930, to Rabbi Nochum Mordechai Perlow ,the Novominsker Rebbe, and his wife, Beila Rochma Morgenstern. Perlow began his Torah education at Yeshiva Toras Chaim in East New York, and continued on to the Lithuanian-type yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn and Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey. He also graduated with honors from Brooklyn College. After his marriage, Perlow taught at Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois. He later moved back to Brooklyn and settled in Crown Heights, becoming a member of the administration of the mesivta of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. In 1969, he was appointed rosh yeshiva at the Breuer's y...
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Mary Virginia Howell Christopher, Nurse
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Mary Virginia Howell Christopher, Nurse

Mary Virginia Howell Christopher – a Registered Nurse in Army Nurse during World War II, New Orleans, Louisiana – passed away on 6 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Mary was 97 years old. Mary Virginia was born in Talladega, Alabama on May 24, 1922 and was the descendant of some of the first early 19th century settlers in Talladega County. Upon graduation from High School, she traveled to New Orleans to attend the Mather School of Nursing at Baptist Hospital from 1940 to 1943. After becoming a Registered Nurse, she enlisted in the military in January 1944 and was deployed in 1945 to the European Theater, serving as part of the 134th Evacuation Hospital, which replaced the 51st Field Hospital, where she was ultimately promoted to 1st Lieutenant, Chief Nurse, and participated in the Rhineland ...
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Aleyamma John, Registered Nurse
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Aleyamma John, Registered Nurse

Aleyamma John – a Registered Nurse at NYC Health+Hospitals/Queens Hospital Center, New York City – passed away on 7 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. John was 65 years old. She began her career at Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation, before moving on to the NYC Health + Hospitals system in 2003. Source: NEW YORK STATE NURSES ASSOCIATION Please help us in adding details.
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Allen Garfield, actor
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Allen Garfield, actor

Allen Garfield, an American film and television actor, succumbed to Covid-19 on April 7, 2020. Garfield was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a Jewish family, the son of Alice (née Lavroff), and Philip Goorwitz. He had one sister, Lois. A 1957 graduate of Weequahic High School, he was a sports reporter and Golden Gloves boxer before becoming an actor. He attended The Actors Studio in New York City, studying with both Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan, and worked on stage before acting in film. Garfield appeared in over 100 films and television shows. He is known for having played nervous villains, corrupt businessmen and politicians. In addition he appeared in two art films by German director Wim Wenders, Der Stand der Dinge and Bis ans Ende der Welt. Quentin Tarantino once stud...
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Leila Benitez-McCollum, journalist
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Leila Benitez-McCollum, journalist

Leila Benitez-McCollum ‑ a Filipino-born American radio and television host, presenter, journalist and broadcaster – died on April 9, 2020 from Covid-19 complications.   Benitez, who was nicknamed as the "first lady of Philippine television", became a household name in the Philippines from the 1950s to the early 1970s due to a string of successful radio and television shows. She was best known for co-hosted Student Canteen, the country's first afternoon variety show, from 1959-64.   Benitez was born in Quezon City, Philippines. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Georgetown University in Washington D.C.   Benitez was best known for hosting the variety show, Student Canteen, which began as a radio show in the l...
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Bernie Juskiewicz, politician
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Bernie Juskiewicz, politician

Bernard Charles Juskiewicz Jr. –an American politician in the state of Vermont – died of Covid-19 on April 8, 2020.     He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, who sat as a Republican from the Lamoille-3 district, after having being elected for the first time in 2012. Juskiewicz did not seek reelection in 2018. He also served on the Lamoille Union High School Board, the Cambridge Elementary School Board and the Cambridge Select Board.   Juskiewicz was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Hopkins Academy in Hadley, Massachusetts. He completed his bachelor of arts degree in business administration from the College of Emporia in Kansas. In 1967, he married his wife, Suzan, with whom he had three children.  ...
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