Homeless people who died in 2020 in Clark County remembered at service
Published: December 22, 2020, 12:42pm
Share: Laura Ellsworth, right, writes a message on a memorial board set up Friday at St. PaulÌs Lutheran Church in Vancouver. Ellsworth is with the Council for the Homeless, which helped set up the board with the names of the homeless from the community who died in 2020. On Monday night, the council held a virtual ceremony to remember the members of the community who died in 2020. (Jeff Klein/The Columbian files)
Like many things affected by COVID-19, Clark County’s homeless population is at increased risk.
Roy. Bill. David.
These were the first three of several names that were read at a vigil on Monday to remember homeless people who died outside this year in Central Oregon.
About 50 people walked from the parking lot of the nonprofit Family Kitchen to Troy Field in downtown Bend, with masks on and candles or flashlights in hand. Social service providers have documented at least 15 people have died outside this year.
At Troy Field, social service providers and faith leaders held a memorial with a simple message: Each person brought light into the world, and with their death, the world becomes a little darker.
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Darryl Finney, age 62.
Dana Woolfolk, with the National Coalition for the Homeless, read the names of dozens of Washingtonians who died in 2020 while experiencing homelessness. Sometimes he read only their ages. Other times just their initials.
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