RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — This Thanksgiving is the first major holiday for thousands of families in North Carolina and the hundreds of thousands across the country grieving loved ones lost to COVID-19.
Their empty chairs will be apparent, as will the void in their loved ones’ hearts.
“It’s a dreaded disease, and to go on without your loved ones is really, really painful,” Cynthia Wilson, who lost three family members to COVID-19, said. “This virus is real and one thing I can say to viewers is that masks, washing hands and keeping distance saves lives.”
Wilson’s niece, Karen Wilson, was just 54 when she died after a weeks-long battle with the virus. Her cousins, Ruth Jones Clark, 63, and Merland Nipper, 78, also fell ill and succumbed to the disease.
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