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The Gaston Gazette
“Patient, kind, passionate,” - the headline was not about a national figure, or state, or even local politician. No, it was about a retired Shelby school teacher who had unexpectedly died of COVID-19.
The secondary headline read, “Burns High family says goodbye to ‘Momma Goss.’ Who had died that claimed such astounding newspaper attention? She was Anne Bowen Goss, who for 20 years was head of the Burns High School musical chorus program before she retired in 2014. Anne fell ill with the virus and unexpectedly died on Sunday, Jan. 31 at Atrium Health-Pineville.
In the last six years of her life, she had also become an active member of a different kind of musical group that was building a reputation for itself as well. She was part of Joseph Webb’s Jazz Era Revue, a small ensemble that had resurrected the old-style cabaret stage-style performances of a by-gone era.