CLOVERDALE â The letter-shaped balloons floated skyward in an alphabet of grief Saturday as a family mourned the still-unsolved shooting death of Roanoke toddler Nazim Shimin Claytor.
Mixed among balloons spelling out the boyâs first name were more shaped like the numeral 3 â Nazimâs age when the vehicle he was in was sprayed with bullets one year ago, killing him in his car seat.
And the rainy skies above Old Dominion Memorial Gardens were briefly decorated with more balloons shaped like hearts and others bearing pictures of Spiderman, a nod to the webslinger fandom that had briefly gripped Nazimâs young life.
Julia Ann Sorrells, 56, of Vinton died April 4 Published on Mon, 04/05/2021 - 3:52pm
Julia Ann Sorrells, 56, of Vinton died Sunday, April 4, 2021, at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Born Sept. 18, 1964, in Lexington, she was a daughter of Mary Ann White and the late Rudell Wayne White.
Julia was previously employed at Wachovia Banking. She loved animals, especially cats, and also loved gardening, drinking coffee, reading and crocheting.
In addition to her mother, she is survived by husband Jesse Darrell Sorrells; daughter Jillian Sorrells (William Chambers) of Vinton; brother Eric Wayne White of Natural Bridge; four nieces and nephews; and two great-nieces and nephews.
You might be able to understand the fear that struck Tammie Stanley s heart last week when you hear the story she told me.
Tammie was on the job as a guidance counselor at a Roanoke middle school March 23 when she got an unexpected phone call from LewisGale Medical Center. That s when she first learned her 84-year-old mom, Sherry Stanley, was at the emergency room.
Turned out, Sherry had taken a fall in the driveway of the Cave Spring home the two women share. Sherry was OK, a woman named Ashley from the Emergency Department told Tammie. The hospital treated an ugly contusion on Sherry s forehead, and she was ready for discharge.
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We deal primarily with lung disorders. We see a lot of acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, sepsis, a lot of patients who are in need of continuous dialysis, we call that. However, we have been exclusively COVID positive. As of the 13th of this month, we ve been doing this for 52 weeks. At first we took PUIs, or people under investigation, meaning we didn t know whether or not they were COVID positive. We were waiting for the test results. But we ve been taking only positives for, I don t even know, since the summer. It s really stressful. The patients that we re seeing are the sickest of the sick. We didn t have enough beds. There was a time when we were scrambling to find placements for the patients. And as a result, my colleagues and I have had to cross-train nurses over on the other side of the hospital.
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