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24Jun

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Reagan Henry, certified nursing assistant

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. Citizen Times

17Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Henry Miller, lawyer

Henry Miller ‑ an American lawyer and jurist – died on April 16 2020 due to Covid‑19. Miller was a past president of the New York Bar Association, and the author of several books and articles on trial advocacy; he was known as an expert in trial lawyering. Miller was born in Brooklyn, the son of Henry A. and Anne Withers Miller, on February 18, 1931. He attended St. John's College (class of 1952) and St. John's Law School (class of 1959). Miller was the senior partner of the law firm of Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, P.C., where he practiced trial work starting in 1966. He was president of the Westchester Bar Association and the New York Bar Association, the largest voluntary bar association in the United States. He received man...

16Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Henry Grimes, Jazz bassist

Henry Grimes ‑ an American jazz double bassist, violinist, and poet ‑ died on April 15, 2020, at the age of 84 from complications of COVID-19. After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970. Grimes was often presumed to have died, but he was rediscovered in 2002 and returned to performing. Henry Alonzo Grimes was born in Philadelphia, to parents who both had been musicians in their youth. He took up the violin at the age of 12, then began playing tuba, English horn, percussion, finally switching to the double bass at Mastbaum Technical High School. He furthered his musical studies at Juilliard and established a reputation as a versatile bassist by the...

15Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

William Henry Gerdts Jr., art historian

William Henry Gerdts Jr. an American art historian and professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Gerdts was the author of over twenty-five books on American art died of complications of the COVID-19 virus, aged 91, on April 14, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. An expert in American Impressionism, he was also well known for his work on nineteenth-century American still life painting. Gerdts was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Beginning in 1945 he attended Amherst College. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst in 1949, Gerdts attended Harvard Law School, but after four days switched to the Department of Fine Arts. There he earned a master's degree in 1950 and a Ph.D. in 1966. Gerdts' professional positions included that of Cura...

8Apr

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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...

21Mar

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Medics, Philippines, Profiles

Henry Fernandez, Physician

Henry Fernandez – a Physician in Pangasinan, Philippines – passed away on 20 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Henry was 77 years old. Source: ABS CBN NEWS Please help us in adding details.