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A26 OBITUARIO/U.s. news
Dialuna 1 november 2021
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di
nada Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta
ponemi sosega.E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Johannes Maria Boekhout
*01-04-1940 - †19-10-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia
despues.
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Silvia Hermus
*21-04-1935 - †20-10-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
Ki alegria, ora nan a bisa mi:
“Ban cas di Señor!”
I awor, ata mi aki para na bo porta Señor.
Salmo 122
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa
fayecimento di nos ser stima:
Joanna Faro
Cariñosamente yama “Tepichi, Picho of Nachi”
*30-03-1939 - †27-10-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues
For 112-year-old veteran’s daughter, care is a
labor of love
(AP) - Vanessa Brooks was the couch for a break in between tions in the past year have been
gentle as she held the face of feeding him and giving him taxing physically and emotion-
her 112-year-old father in her therapy for his swelling legs. “If I ally.
hands. can keep him in his right state of
mind until God calls him home, Each day, Vanessa starts ear-
She patted the shaving cream that’s my intent.” ly, bringing him medications,
carefully on his cheeks and along cleaning him and his space,
his jaw before sliding the razor For the past 13 years, she has loading his wheelchair onto the
across his face to make a clean been her father’s primary care- electric lift when he has doctor’s
strip. giver, providing round-the- appointments.
clock attention. It’s a full-time
Lawrence Brooks sat quietly in job, one she’s tried to balance Brooks recently qualified for
his big armchair in their double with her work as a neighbor- a program that will allow a VA
shotgun house, a New Orleans hood security patrol officer — home-health care aide come to
Saints blanket draped over the the job that pays the bills. But as their house during the day to
back. The oldest living U.S. vet- her father has aged, that balanc- help Vanessa. But she said there
eran’s arms were clasped togeth- ing act has become trickier. are a lot of personal care needs
er in his lap and his eyes were that he only feels comfortable
closed. Around him were ban- The centenarian Brooks is still with her attending to, keeping
ners from the National World mentally sharp — he can tell most of the responsibility on
War II Museum and the Veter- decades-old stories of his child- her.
ans Affairs hospital celebrating hood in Louisiana and rural
past birthdays. A portrait of him Mississippi, of being drafted to In late September, Vanessa took
in his Army uniform, three- join WWII. indefinite leave from her job of
quarters of a century old, sat on nine years. Too young to begin
the dresser. But his body is weak. Brooks’ collecting Social Security, she
hearing is becoming more lim- knows the loss of income will
“I want him to be comfortable, ited, he has lost his sight in one take a toll. But she considers car-
happy and himself,” Vanessa, 61, eye, and his vision is fading in ing for her father the most im-
had said the day before, lying on the other. Several hospitaliza- portant job in the world.
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