NEW YORK – The request, posted on an online neighborhood forum by a Brooklyn funeral director, was simple but heartfelt.
A 91-year-old woman had died from the coronavirus. Her family was scattered in other states. Would anyone like to contribute items for her funeral, like flowers?
This wasn’t a funeral for anyone who lived in the neighborhood, Brooklyn’s Prospect Leffert Gardens section, or for anyone that neighbors knew.
It was for a complete stranger who died at a Manhattan assisted living facility. Yet within minutes, people began to respond.