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Rick May, voice actor & theatrical performer
9Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Rick May, voice actor & theatrical performer

Rick May ‑ a Canadian-American voice actor and theatrical performer, director, and teacher from Seattle, Washington – died of Covid-19 on April 8, 2020. May provided the English-language voice for Peppy Hare in Star Fox 64 and Soldier in Team Fortress 2, among other video games. May was born on September 21, 1940. He was raised in Washington and Canada. May attended Roosevelt High School in Seattle and St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. May served in the U.S. military and was stationed in Japan, where he coordinated USO shows in Tokyo. May returned to the Seattle area to serve as the director of the Renton Civic Theatre and Civic Light Opera in Renton, Washington. In one production of the Cotton Patch Gospel in Renton, May played all 21 roles with a variety of ...
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Mike Field, Emergency Medical Technician
9Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Mike Field, Emergency Medical Technician

Mike Field – an Emergency Medical Technician in Valley Stream, New York – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 9 April, 2020. Mike was 59 years old. Mike joined the department in April of 1987 and rose through the ranks, serving the company as Lieutenant, Captain and since 2007 as a warden on the departments fire council. He served as an EMT in New York City for over 15 years. On September 11, 2001, Mike was working New York City Fire Department (FDNY) EMS unit 12 Charlie and responded and operated at the World Trade Center before and after the collapse. After retiring from the FDNY, Mike worked for Incorporated Village of Valley Stream. Mike also served many years as the departments advisor to the Valley Stream Junior Fire Depar...
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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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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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Roy Coleman, Emergency Medical Technician
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Roy Coleman, Emergency Medical Technician

Roy Coleman – an Emergency Medical Technician in Shreveport, Louisiana – passed away on 7 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Roy was 64 years old. “I extend my deepest condolences to the families of Roy Coleman and Vianna Thompson. Their avoidable and untimely deaths highlight the risks facing frontline health care providers and other mission-critical workers every day — and the scandalous lack of action to keep these workers safe,” AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in the statement. AFGE filed a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration this week, criticizing the VA for failing to protect staff. The union claimed the VA created an unsafe working environment by not providing enough personal protective equip...
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Leib Groner, theologist
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Leib Groner, theologist

Yehuda Leib "Leibel" Groner ‑ a Hasidic Jewish teacher, scholar, and author – died on April 7, 2020 from Covid-19. He had served as the personal secretary to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, for 44 years. His parents were Rabbi Mordechai Avrohom Yeshaya Groner and Menucha Rochel Groner. Groner studied at the Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where he excelled as a student. Groner is a co-author, with Volf Greenglass of Montreal, of Sefer HaMinhagim, the authoritative book describing Chabad-Lubavitch customs. He was also an editor of Otzar HaChasidim, the editorial group that publishes works on Chabad Chassidut. He also taught at Beis Rivka in Crown Heights, a school for girls who are part of t...
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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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Rose Harrison
8Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Rose Harrison

Rose Harrison, 60, Guin, died on April 6 night at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Miss. She was an employee at the Marion Regional Nursing Home and had worked in healthcare for around 30 years. According to her daughter, Amanda Williams, Harrison tested positive for Covid-19 after a nursing home resident contracted the virus. Using social media updates, Williams notified family and friends that Harrison was hospitalized in Tupelo on April 3 and placed on a ventilator on April 4. The next day (April 5), testing showed she was positive for Covid-19. Williams said her mother began not feeling well around Wednesday, April 1. Williams said Harrison had a temperature of 99.8 for several days, but was told she was expected to work unless her temperature was 100.4 or higher. ...
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