Collected Item: “Ruth Hunt's Story”
Give your story a title.
Ruth Hunt's Story
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
text story
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
Many family members expressed a great sense of relief knowing that mom passed last year and not in 2020 because it would have been unbearable for me not to be able to visit with my mother during this pandemic. My mom was confined to a nursing/rehab facility for the last nine months of her life and I had to travel back and forth from New Jersey to Virginia to spend 10 days at a time with her. It was the hardest nine months of my life advocating for my mother's life while she was confined. Although she passed the last day of February 2019, I continued running that race to get everything perfectly in place to honor her life. The family was not up to the burial at the time so we planned to have a family reunion this July 2020 and a graveside service to remit mom's ashes in the grave waiting for her next to our father. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic the family has decided to postpone the graveside service until July 2021 in order to celebrate her life.
You can listen to an interview with my mother here: https://omny.fm/shows/fuel-for-the-spirit/fuel-for-the-spirit-7-13-19.
I am a family researcher, my story is here: https://www.ruthdhunt.com/
You can listen to an interview with my mother here: https://omny.fm/shows/fuel-for-the-spirit/fuel-for-the-spirit-7-13-19.
I am a family researcher, my story is here: https://www.ruthdhunt.com/
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
nursing home, death and dying, oral history, family, African American genealogy
Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.
https://omny.fm/shows/fuel-for-the-spirit/fuel-for-the-spirit-7-13-19
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Ruth D. Hunt
Give this story a date.
2020-07-22