Reagan Henry, a CNA at Deerfield Retirement Community, died on June 23 from COVID-19 at Mission Hospital. His funeral was on June 27 in Asheville.
The 39-year-old was known as a gentle, kind, hard worker.
Reagan was the first health care worker at a nursing home facility in Western North Carolina to die of COVID-19, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services, and one of only three nursing home caregivers in the state to die of the disease.
Many of the large, tight-knit family members came from Micronesia to Asheville to work in the health care field.
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