Anthony Wahl
The annual Independence Day on the Rock free holiday display at
Traxler Park on Sunday, July 4.
Thousands of young children lost parents to COVID. Whereâs help for them?
By JoNel Aleccia
Kaiser Health News
Jul 5, 2021
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Valerie Villegas holds a photograph of her late husband, Robert
Villegas, along with her children Alexis Vaiz, Nicholas, Robert
Jr., Ayden and Andrew Vaiz outside their Portland, Texas, home on
Wednesday. (Scott Stephen Ball/Kaiser Health News/TNS)
Scott Stephen Ball/KHN
Valerie Villegas (left) holds Robert Jr. as her oldest son,
Andrew Vaiz, ties Aydenâs shoes. Villegas says all six of her