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Kansas man's coronavirus death was 'lonelier than necessary,' obituary says

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A great-grandfather in Kansas who was born just before the start of World War II died from coronavirus earlier this month in a “room not …
A great-grandfather in Kansas who was born just before the start of World War II died from coronavirus earlier this month in a “room not his own, being cared for by people dressed in confusing and frightening ways,” his obituary stated. “He died with COVID-19, and his final days were harder, scarier and lonelier than necessary,” the obituary for Marvin Farr, of Scott City, said. “He was not surrounded by friends and family.” The obituary goes on to state that Farr, a farmer and veterinarian, was born “into an America recovering from the Great Depression and about to face World War 2,” a time in which “loss and sacrifice” was “difficult for most of us to imagine.

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