NEW YORK – Reyna Martinez kept silent when the coronavirus killed her mother. She would hide in a bathroom and cry to keep the secret from her father.
Then, the virus killed him, and she mourned again in silence because she felt it would crush her 9-year-old daughter to know that her doting grandparents, who she lived with and were helping to raise her, were gone. “I wish I could wake up and that this was all just a dream,” Martinez said. “A nightmare.” ____ EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of an ongoing series of stories remembering people who have died from coronavirus around the world.
____ Before they came to the United States, Epifania Marcos and Pedro Martinez owned a farm where they grew fruits and vegetables in the Mexican coastal city