Jim Applegate, 54, pastor for 21 years of
Westview Christian Church in Campbellsburg, Ind., died of COVID-19 on Dec. 20, followed by virus-related deaths of his mother (12 hours later), and his sister (on Christmas Eve).
“The thing that’s keeping me going is . . . hope in Jesus because I know where they’re at,”
Nicholas Applegate, the pastor’s son and WCC’s youth pastor, told WHAS11.com. “The first few weeks in December our community had seen a lot of COVID cases, especially here in our church family.”
In addition to the death of his father, Nicholas Applegate’s grandmother,
Pat Applegate, 82, and his aunt,
Pastor Jim Applegate, 54 (C), his 83-year-old mother Patricia Applegate (L) and his sister, MaryJane Applegate, 59 (R), all died from the coronavirus over the course on one week. | WKYC
An Indiana pastor, his sister and elderly mother all recently died from the new coronavirus over the course of a week as new data shows the brunt of the devastation from the virus shifting toward rural and less densely populated parts of the United States.
Pastor Jim Applegate, 54, who led Westview Christian Church in Campbellsburg for 21 years, died from the virus on Dec. 20, WKYC reported. Some 12 hours later on Dec. 21, his 83-year-old mother, Patricia Applegate, died from the virus at Baptist Health Floyd hospital. His older sister, MaryJane Applegate, 59, died from the virus on Christmas Eve.
The virus took the pastor's mother's life, Pat Applegate, 12 hours after his death. On Christmas Eve, the pastor's sister MaryJane Applegate died from COVID-19.