Alabama man dies of COVID after refusing to leave sick wife
Updated Feb 20, 2021;
By Ben Nunnally The Anniston Star, Ala. (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
When Mary Smallwood was diagnosed with COVID-19, her husband, Jimmy, decided he wouldn’t leave her side. That choice cost him his life, his family said, but he wouldn’t have done anything differently.
The Smallwoods both 77, were Alexandria High School sweethearts who had married when they were 17. They both caught the virus after a family get-together at Christmas that left at least 16 members of the family infected. Mary was diagnosed first, said her daughter, LaDonna Smallwood, who tested negative.