âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
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And that will include one elector who hails from LaGrange.
Across the 50 states and Washington D.C., presidential electors will be meeting on Monday to officially cast their votes for the next president of the United States.
The expected outcome of that vote will make former Vice President Joe Biden the 46th President of the United States, as he goes into Monday s vote having won 306 electoral votes to Republican President Donald Trump s 232.
On Monday, Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson will preside over the meeting of Indiana s 11 presidential electors as they officially cast their votes for President and Vice President of the United States.