My father, Jack Bowen, 76, died sometime around midnight on May 26 in a nursing home in Kansas. He was a father of four and grandfather to six, advocated for girls athletics and lobbied for background checks for anyone working with children.

He coached our teams and loved all of his players. Jack served in the U.S. Army and liked watching documentaries about military jets and aircraft carriers. He was a fire protection engineer for 50 years.

Was it #COVID19? I don't have any evidence that it is, but I don't have any evidence that it wasn't.

He was admitted there with bronchitis.

Two days before he died, he told my brother "I think they are giving me something that's making me really really tired."

Jack was never tested for #COVID19. And because Kansas won't tell the public, or doesn't know, which nursing homes are testing for #COVID19 many families like mine will continue to have questions and no answers.

You can read more about Jack Bowen on my Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/kate.martin1/posts/10222730284025726

A final note. I called around to several health departments and the Kansas epidemiologists office to see if we could get him a postmortem test. The answer was no.

Kansas, I was told, has a shortage of tests.