Profiles – Page 114

4Apr

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Neighbors, Profiles, United Kingdom

Amanda Forde, GP Receptionist

Amanda Forde, a GP Receptionist at The Vale Practice, London, England – passed away on 3 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Forde worked at a GP practice in London. Her employer described her as “a beautiful, caring receptionist”. The practice’s website includes a dedication to her that concludes: “May she rest in peace.” Source: The Guardian Please help us in adding details.

4Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles

Hans Prade, diplomat & politician

Hans Orlando Prade, a Surinamese diplomat and politician, died on 3 April 2020 due to coronavirus. After graduating from Leiden University, Prade returned to Suriname, and founded the short lived Nationale Volkspartij together with Ronald Venetiaan. Later Prade became a member of the Progressieve Nationale Partij. During the coup, Prade was a commentator on Suriname radio. Prade was the Surinamese ambassador to the Netherlands from 1981 to 1982. His political and undiplomatic statements were not appreciated by the regime and he was dismissed on 1 June 1982. In 1986, Prade became chairman of the Rekenkamer van Suriname [nl], a position which he held for about 10 years. In 1991, he tried to run for President of Suriname, but lost out to his former college friend Venetiaan. ...

4Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United States

James House, Registered Nurse

James House – a Registered Nurse at Omni Continuing Care, Detroit, Michigan – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 4 April, 2020. James was 40 years old. Omni Continuing Care issued the following statement: "It is with great sadness to report the recent passing of one of our employees at Omni Continuing Care. Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time. This individual was a beloved, long-time employee, who will be greatly missed. We have brought in grief counselors to assist our staff and residents. ... Source: Detroit Free Press Please help us in adding details.

4Apr

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Omar Quintana, politician

Omar Quintana Baquerizo ‑ an Ecuadorian politician, sports executive, businessman, and member of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (PRE) and Institutional Renewal Party of National Action (PRIAN) political parties – died on on April 3, 2020 from coronavirus. Quintana served in the former National Congress of Ecuador from 2003 to 2005, including a tenure as the President of the National Congress from January 5, 2005, until April 20, 2005. Additionally, Quintana was the former director of C.S. Emelec, a professional football sports club based in Guayaquil. Under his leadership, C.S. Emelec won three national football championships in 1979, 2001, and 2002. He also headed the Club 9 de Octubre football club when the team qualified for the Copa Libertadores competition in 1984 an...

4Apr

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Steven J. Huber, Orthodonist

Steven J. Huber – an Orthodonist in Jefferson City, Missouri – passed away on 3 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Steven was 62 years old. Steven was an Eagle Scout and he graduated from Helias High School where he was a varsity wrestler. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He went on to receive his Doctor of Dental Surgery at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and then continued his education at the University of Oklahoma and completed the orthodontic program there. Source: Dulle Trimble Please help us in adding details.

4Apr

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Arlene Stringer-Cuevas, politician

Arlene Stringer-Cuevas ‑ an American politician, educator, and civil servant – died from coronavirus on April 3, 2020. She was a schoolteacher before serving on the New York City Council from 1976 to 1977. Stringer-Cuevas later worked for the New York City Human Resources Administration for 16 years until her retirement in 1994. She died due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Stringer-Cuevas was born Arlene Gluss in the Bronx in New York City, New York, and was a school teacher. She lived in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. She was Jewish. Stringer-Cuevas served as her neighborhood's Democratic Party district leader from 1969 to 1976. She was elected to the New York City Council in 1976 after winning a four-person primary for the Democratic n...

4Apr

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Iran, Medics, Profiles

FaribaIzadpanahi, Nurse

FaribaIzadpanahi – a Nurse at Beheshti Hospital, Shiraz, Iran. It was reported on 4 April, 2020. Faribalzad was 40 years old. Source: Iran Focus Please help us in adding details.

4Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Frida Wattenberg, activist

Frida Wattenberg ‑ a member of the French Resistance – died on 3 April, 2020, due to COVID-19. Wattenberg was born in 1924 to Jewish parents from Poland. She grew up in The Marais quarter of Paris. She joined the Hashomer Hatzair movement in the late 1930s. During World War II, she studied at the Lycée Victor Hugo in Paris. Wattenberg also made several collages of posters for the French Resistance. In 1941, Wattenberg joined the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), for which she made false papers for Jewish people to escape to the south of France. Her mother was arrested during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, and Wattenberg managed to secure her release by proving that she worked in a factory supplying clothes to members of the German army. In 1943,...

4Apr

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Shahrouz Karimian, Nurse

Shahrouz Karimian – a Nurse in Tehran, Iran – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Shahrouz was 45 years old. Source: IRAN HRM Please help us in adding details.

3Apr

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Prof Mohamed Sami Shousha

Prof Mohamed Sami Shousha, 79, a father-of-two, died on April 2 in London after contracting the virus around two weeks earlier. “He was very keen on going to work on his final days despite the health hazards,” his nephew Abdelrahman Shousha told Middle Eastern Eye. “However, most likely, his work did not involve direct contact with Covid-19 patients.” Prof Shousha had been working at Charing Cross Hospital since 1978, where he managed the breast histopathology service, which concerns changes in tissues caused by disease. He was also an honorary professor of histopathology at Imperial College and worked at UK cancer research laboratories at London’s Hammersmith and Charing Cross hospitals. The Telegraph