On June 18, North Lawndale residents will see the local Anna and Frederick Douglass Park, 1401 S. Sacramento Dr., become a space to celebrate freedom culture, family and tradition.
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Jerry and Rosie Morrow of Cedar Rapids were together for 47 years, before succumbing to complications from COVID-19 within just hours of each other.
COVID-19 has devastated families across the state, killing 3,354 Iowans as of Thursday afternoon. The respiratory disease has taken lives across all 99 counties, among them parents and teachers, coaches and retired judges, refugees and a survivor of the Holocaust. And more than once, the coronavirus has taken married couples who have died within just hours of each other, including Jerry and Rosie Morrow of Cedar Rapids.
The Morrows were together for 47 years. But last month, in just 11 hours and 42 minutes, they were both gone, taken by COVID-19. A double obituary ran in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, at least the third in recent weeks.