Nicholas Applegate News Today

Jim Applegate, 54, pastor for 21 years of Westview Christian Church in Campbellsburg, Ind., died of COVID-19 on Dec. 20, followed by virus-related deaths of his mother (12 hours later), and his sister (on Christmas Eve). “The thing that’s keeping me going is . . . hope in Jesus because I know where they’re at,” Nicholas Applegate, the pastor’s son and WCC’s youth pastor, told WHAS11.com. “The first few weeks in December our community had seen a lot of COVID cases, especially her...

Pastor Jim Applegate, 54 (C), his 83-year-old mother Patricia Applegate (L) and his sister, MaryJane Applegate, 59 (R), all died from the coronavirus over the course on one week. | WKYC An Indiana pastor, his sister and elderly mother all recently died from the new coronavirus over the course of a week as new data shows the brunt of the devastation from the virus shifting toward rural and less densely populated parts of the United States. Pastor Jim Applegate, 54, who led Westview Christian Chu...

The virus took the pastor's mother's life, Pat Applegate, 12 hours after his death. On Christmas Eve, the pastor's sister MaryJane Applegate died from COVID-19.