Midmorning With Aundrea - November 16, 2020 (Part 3)

(Part 3 of 4) The COVID-19 pandemic has passed the grim milestone of over 240,000 deaths and counting.

We take a look back on some of those we've lost to the pandemic over the past several months.

The u-s has surpassed another terrible corona- virus milestone-- with more than á10á million reported cases.

And it's only expected to get worse.

So far, the pandemic has claimed nearly 240 thousand lives the u-s, including parents, siblings, friends, artists, and essential workers.

We are continuing to share the stories of the remarkable people we've lost.

Here are just some of the ámanyá lives to remember.

Mason / lives to remember #13 / castagna helen jones woods was a founding member of the international sweethearts of rhythm, a racially integrated all female band that toured the world in the 1930's and 40's.

Woods picked up the trombone at 13, as she told a smithsonian panel in 2011: woods: "i lik watching the slide go up and down oh, i could go up and down too, so why the hell why don't i play it, why don't i play that instrument, you know?"

Narr: in 1944, downbeat magazine rated the sweethearts america's #1 female band.

But as woods recalled in the 2013 documentary, the girls in the band..they weren't always welcome in the jim crow south helen: some places they would accept you, some places just didn't have room for you.

If we didn't sleep on the bus, we wouldn't have a place to stay."

The sweethearts broke up in 1949 and woods joined the omah symphony.

But she was fired when the orchestra discovered she was black.

So she worked for 30 years as a nurse and raised 4 children.

Helen jones woods was 96 dr. john d.

Marshall ran a family practice in south georgia for more than three decades "my uncle was rockstar in americus, georgia," said rasheed marshall.

'he had his hand in every little thing&in that city."

Dr. marshall, j.d.

To his friends, headed the naacp chapter for 14 years&and started the local newspaper, the americus sumter observer, serving as editor in chief.

Dr. marshall was still running the paper and caring for his patients, when he caught the coronavirus.

He would spend 111 days on a ventilator.

"he worked unti he could not work anymore," said hi niece, leslie marshall.

"w truly lost an angel."

Dr. john d.

Marshall was 74 bryan fonseca was a dramatic force in indianapolis theatre, a producer & director who championed voices whose stories hadn't been told: fonseca; "goo theater - has always been commentary on the political and social aspects of every community in which it serves.

// it helps us as a community understand what's going on in the world around us.

Fonseca first started a storefront theatre in his hometown of gary, indiana.

In 1983, in indianapolis, he co- founded the phoenix theatre, which he led for 35 years.

Two years ago, he put his name on a new company, the fonseca theatre, made up of 80% people of color.

'he gave me a shot.

He's done that for countless artists," said jordan flores schwartz, now the theatre's interim director.

When fonseca got covid, he held staff meetings from the hospital til just days before he died.

"he had a laug that could fill a room," sai schwartz, "it' weird to think i'll never hear that voice again."

Bryan fonseca was 65 andrea mammen was a clinical psychologist and mother in illinois.

"she was hand down the most beautiful soul i have ever met," said her husband, matt.

They met in kindergarten&.

Became close friends in high school & married in 2013.

Andrea worked for 9 years to get her psychology degree and was devoted to her patients "ande was a ver accepting person," said her mom, kathy smith.

"sh just wanted to feel good about themselves and their differences."

In may, matt and ande bought their dream home, so their son, russ, now three, had a big backyard to play in.

In august, they all caught the coronavirus.

Matt and russ fought it off.

But ande's lingered.

Just days after his mother died, russ called out one night to his father.

"dada," he said, "i just going to be you and me now, right?"

"yup," ma answered, "jus you and me."

Andrea mammen was 37.

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