Joseph J. Thomas looked frightened.
He was dying from Covid-19, without his family around him. Each of his five children were saying their goodbyes remotely, on Thanksgiving day.
They were still reeling from their mother s death from Covid-19 two weeks before.
Both parents had contracted the virus in different nursing homes. Marie S. Thomas, 94, was in Autumn View Health Care Facility in Hamburg with advanced Alzheimer s disease. The disease had progressed to the point where she had not been able to talk with her children since the spring.
But Jay Thomas, as he was known, a retired lawyer living at Canterbury Woods in Amherst, was alert until the end.