Huron Valley memorial gathering honors those who died during pandemic
During the depths of pandemic lockdown a year ago, Nancy Czech and her husband visited the graves of family members buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Detroit. While there she found herself overcome — not by her own loss, but by that of another family and, in retrospect, the world's collective losses. Two funerals were taking place that day, and as they passed one with 10 masked people standing six feet apart around the grave, Czech was suddenly overwhelmed with the magnitude of the pandemic and how it had upended everything, including long-held sacred rituals. “I just wanted to burst i...