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Juanita Moran and her family were among the first Mexican Americans to move to St. Paul s West Side. She has also worked to share the area s Latino culture through music and dance, playing the piano and the accordion and starting the area s first traditional Mexican dancing group.
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Juanita Moran didn t have the classic signs of COVID-19.
The petite 99-year-old had been in good health until early November, when she started sleeping all day and eating only a few bites. Her seven children, who had been taking shifts caring for her around the clock for more than a year, were heartbroken when a hospice nurse surmised that she likely had only days to live and surprised when she tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Adding to their worries, nine of Moran s children and their spouses confirmed one after another that they, too, had caught the potentially deadly virus.