Four years ago, an Arizona grandmother captured hearts when she accidentally invited the wrong person over for Thanksgiving dinner.
Now, she’s in the news for a sad event, thanks to COVID-19. Wanda Dench, the grandmother in question who befriended a teenage stranger over a texting mix-up, just lost her husband, Lonnie, to the novel coronavirus, KDVR-TV reports.
The stranger was Jamal Hinton, who was invited over to celebrate the holiday anyway, despite the mistake. He brought his girlfriend, Mikaela, and their families for the following four Thanksgiving dinners.
Hinton took to Twitter to share his condolences with Wanda, writing: “As some of you may have already found out tonight, Lonnie did not make it … but Wanda told me all the love and