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25Mar

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Kious Kelly, ER Nurse

Kious Kelly – an ER Nurse, Mount Sinai West, New York City – passed away on 24 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Kelly was 48 years old. Kelly's sister, Marya Patrice Sherron, told that her brother had asthma but was otherwise well. "You were the best big brother a sister could ask for," she wrote in a Facebook post. Source: msn Please help us in adding details.

24Mar

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Nashom Wooden, artist

Nashom Wooden –an American performing artist – died due to Covid-19 on March 23, 2020. Wooden was a member of the electronic dance music band The Ones and performed as a drag queen under the stage name Mona Foot. Wooden was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and entered the New York nightlife scene as a Club Kid in the mid-1980s. By 1989, he worked in Manhattan running the men's clothing department at Patricia Field's boutique while developing the drag queen persona Mona Foot with his friend and former roommate Lady Bunny. Wooden credits RuPaul as an early mentor; RuPaul taught Wooden how to apply makeup, and both appeared in an off-Broadway play titled My Pet Homo. As Mona Foot, Wooden hosted the weekly drag competition "Mona Foot's ...

Andres Benitez, Food and Nutrition Service provider

24Mar

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Andres Benitez, Food and Nutrition Service provider

Andres Benitez – a Food and Nutrition Service provider at Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck, New Jersey – passed away on March 23, 2020, due to Covid-19 Andres Benitez worked in the hospital's Food & Nutrition Services Department since 2004, said Holy Name President and CEO Michael Maron. "Many of us knew and loved Andres, who was in charge of catering, a job he performed conscientiously and with great attention to detail," he wrote. It was rare that Benitez didn't have a smile, those who knew him said. "We remember him putting out our breakfast every morning, transporting food throughout the medical center and setting up the venues for special events -- always with a warm smile and friendly greeting," one wrote. Source: Tean...

Mike Longo, jazz pianist, composer & author

24Mar

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Mike Longo, jazz pianist, composer & author

Michael Josef Longo ‑ an American jazz pianist, composer, and author ‑ died in Manhattan on March 23, 2020, three days after his 83rd birthday, from complications of COVID-19. Longo was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to parents who had a musical background. His father played bass, his mother played organ at church, and his music training began at a young age. Mike recalled seeing Sugar Chile Robinson playing boogie woogie piano: "The first time I saw him, man, he knocked me out. I must have been three or four years old. He played after the Count Basie show, so I went home and started picking out boogie woogie bass lines." His parents took him for formal lessons at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at four. He moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida soon after. At the ag...

Maurice Berger, cultural historian curator & art critic

24Mar

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Maurice Berger, cultural historian curator & art critic

Maurice Berger ‑ an American cultural historian, curator, and art critic, who served as a Research Professor and Chief Curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ‑ died due to presumed complications of a coronavirus disease on March 23, 2020. Berger was recognized for his interdisciplinary scholarship on race and visual culture in the United States. He curated a number of important exhibitions examining the relationship between race and American art, including the critically-acclaimed For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights co-organized in 2011 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution and the Center for Art, Design &...

24Mar

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Carole Brookins, political economist

Carole Brookins ‑ an American executive director of the World Bank and an expert on the global political economy ‑ died on March 23, 2020 in Palm Beach, Florida of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brookins attended the University of Oklahoma, graduating in 1965, and entered Wall Street in the early 1970s after being hired by EF Hutton, then one of the United States' largest stock brokerages. In 1980, she founded a company named World Perspectives, which focused on agricultural market analysis. Beginning in 1984, Brookins was given several roles in government. The first was as the chairman of the US Department of State's Advisory Committee on Food, Hunger & Agriculture in Developing Countries. Six years later, George H.W. Bush n...

24Mar

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Walter Robb, engineer & philanthropist

Walter Lee Robb –an American engineer, executive, and philanthropist – died from coronavirus on March 23, 2020. He was 91. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1928, he was a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 1993. He was a Research & Development (R&D) executive for General Electric. He owned a few local sports teams, purchasing the minor-league hockey franchise of the Albany River Rats in 1998.

20Mar

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John Cofrancesco

John Cofrancesco, 52, an administrator at Family of Caring at Montclair who dedicated his life to serving the elderly, died due to complications with Covid-19 on March 19. The American College of HealthCare Administrators, of which Cofrancesco was a member, confirmed that Cofrancesco’s death was due to Covid-19. “Rest in peace, John. Thank you for your service to the profession of long term care administration,” association officials said in a statement released on March 21. He is survived by his wife and two sons. Montclair Local

18Mar

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Robert Lancaster, Psychiatrist

Robert Lancaster – a Psychiatrist in New Orleans, Louisiana – passed away on 17 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Robert was 98 years old. Born in Bolton, Mississippi on November 8, 1921, he was a long-time resident of New Orleans. Beloved and esteemed by those fortunate to know him, he was affectionately referred to as "Dr. Bob." Source: Legacy Please help us in adding details.

18Mar

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Stephen Schwartz, pathologist

Stephen Schwartz –an American pathologist at the University of Washington – died due to coronavirus on March 17, 2020. He researched vascular biology, investigating the structure of blood vessels and smooth muscle cells. Schwartz received a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Harvard University in 1963 and a Doctor of Medicine from Boston University in 1967. He started a residency at the University of Washington in 1967, also receiving his Ph.D. in pathology from the institution in 1973. He was the Associate Chief of Pathology at the United States Navy Medical Center from 1973 to 1974. At the University of Washington, he was an assistant professor of pathology from 1974 to 1979, an associate professor from 1979 to 1984, and then a full ...