Yesterday my mother in law Dolores Newman passed away just a few days after her husband Michael left us. The last time Sean saw her was through a window of her assisted living residence when he brought flowers and left them outside to be picked up as she grieved her husband.

2) One of the hardest things was telling our boys she was gone too. We told them that very often you hear stories about when one grandparent dies, the other one follows them because they need to be together again.

3) So, Grandpa Mickey asked God to call Grandma Dee and tell her he missed her. When she was ready she held out her hand to feel his, and she was with him again.

4) Mickey and Dee both died of Covid 19. We will not be able to have funerals for them right now or grieve in the normal way, but we do feel surrounded by love despite being apart from our friends and our family.

5) For all those families going through the same thing, please know you’re not alone. Our loved ones are not statistics in this pandemic. They are beautiful real people that lived lives and were loved and will be missed.

6) Dee was a wonderful wife, daughter, sister, mom and Grandmother. She is in a better place, without pain and back in the arms of her loving husband.