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Some people know Kristin Urquiza as the woman who condemned President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.  Others know her from the obituary she wrote for her father who died from COVID-19 that went viral.  But Tolleson City Council members and city staff know her as just one of the members of the beloved Urquiza family. Tolleson is a small, 6-square mile city west of downtown Phoenix, with some 7,000 residents. It's a tight-knit community where families stay for generations and neighbors sometimes grow up together.  The Urquiza...

Text messages capture heartbreaking goodbyes of COVID-19 victims Katie Sanders © None Sisters Dana Cobbs (on left) and Darcey Cobbs-Lomax lost their father and paternal grandmother to COVID-19 last spring, the deaths occurring only a week apart. Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 375,000 American families know firsthand the grief of losing a loved one, many in conditions that restrict bedside goodbyes. These circumstances—piled on top of the many unknowns of COVID-19—layer enormous pain, guilt, and grief on top of the already-traumatic process of saying ...