VINELAND, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A South Jersey community is mourning the loss of a father and daughter whose lives were claimed by COVID-19
Sheree Coccaro, 62, who was a 27-year member of the Vineland Public School District, and her father, Charles Scarpa, 89, both recently died from the coronavirus.
"I would tell her, 'I'm so sorry I couldn't help her,'" said Sheree's husband, Peter Coccaro. "She knew I would have been there the whole time. I would have never left her side."
As the Coccaro family was grieving Sheree's loss on Friday, her father died just two days later.
On Thursday, Peter sat in his wife's office at Thomas Wallace Middle School mourning.