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The siblings and their mother gathered in a circle around the family table. One by one, they pulled items from the plastic bag they’d picked up from the hospital lobby. Their mother went first, selecting her husband’s reading glasses, devotional booklets and Bible, a reminder of their nightly routine of reading the word of God together. The eldest daughter selected a shirt her father had worn in the hospital, as well as his cellphone, and two other sisters picked their father’s Virgen de ...

Column One: COVID took away their last moments together. Now families cherish what was left behind Marisa Gerber © (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) For families of COVID-19 victims who could not be in the hospital room as their relatives drew a final breath, their loved ones belongings — items of clothing, Bibles, jewelry — become deeply cherished. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) The siblings and their mother gathered in a circle around the family table. One by one...

Honoring COVID lives lost: Kuei Ching Chen, a grandma who taught her grandson Mandarin abroad Listen 7 min MORE Kuei Ching Chen immigrated to California from Taiwan in the 1970s. As her children grew up and started their own families, she eagerly became a grandmother. “The grandchildren all were so bonded with Amah. They think she’s the smartest one in the family,” says her son-in-law David Davis. Illustration by Mike R...