Siblings find closure a year after COVID-19 superspreader choir practice
MANUEL VALDES
SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. (AP) With dish soap, brushes and plastic water jugs in hand, Carole Rae Woodmansee’s four children cleaned the gravestone their mother shares with their father, Jim. Each scrub shined engraved letters spelling out their mother’s name and the days of her birth and death: March 27, 1939, and March 27, 2020.
Carole passed away on her 81st birthday.
That morning marked a year since she died of complications of COVID-19 after contracting it during a choir practice that sickened 53 people and killed two a superspreader event that would become one of the most pivotal transmission episodes in understanding the virus.
Siblings find closure a year after COVID-19 thrashed choir
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A year after COVID-19 superspreader, family finds closure
MANUEL VALDES, Associated Press
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1of39Flowers from her memorial service mark the headstone shared by Carole Rae Woodmansee and her husband Jim (who died in 2003), Saturday, March 27, 2021, at Union Cemetery in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., north of Seattle. Carole died a year ago on the same date in 2020 the day of her 81st birthday from complications of COVID-19 after contracting it during a choir practice that sickened 53 people and killed two a superspreader event that would become one of the most pivotal transmission episodes in understanding the virus.Ted S. Warren/APShow MoreShow Less
ZIP Advertisement The hardest thing is that there was no goodbye : A year after COVID-19 superspreader, family finds closure Share Updated: 6:21 AM EDT Apr 9, 2021 By MANUEL VALDES, Associated Press The hardest thing is that there was no goodbye : A year after COVID-19 superspreader, family finds closure Share Updated: 6:21 AM EDT Apr 9, 2021
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Show Transcript two weeks before Washington state stay at home order was issued. The Skagit Valley corral rehearsed for more than two hours at a local church. It was immediately evident we had a really big problem. 53 people were infected. Two people died. The virus could have saying Alto and the Schedule Valley Corral and she loved every single minute of it. We went to all of her concerts. She always made sure we had tickets. It was a very hard emotional time to have to, you know, yell, I love you mom as she s being wheeled out the door with men standing in our yard tend to feed