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Diaranson 21 Juli 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
Cu inmenso tristesa na nos curason, nos ta
anuncia fayecimento di :
Ashford D. G. Inacio
Mihor conoci como “Patula”
*12-10-1978 - †19-07-2021
Empleado di Douane
Acto di despedida lo wordo anuncia despues.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not
want. He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures; he leadeth me beside
the still waters. He restoreth my soul:
he leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for his name’s sake.
Psalm 23
With great sorrow but greatful for
everything she did for us, we announce
the passing of:
Jennifer Joseph
*29-07-1965 - †18-07-2021
Date and place of burial will
be announced later
Families of last victims in condo say
waiting is agony
(AP) — Estelle Hedaya was
the outspoken life of the par-
ty who loved travel and fash-
ion. She lived on the sixth
floor and quickly connected
with fellow former New
Yorker Linda March, an ad-
venturous traveler who was
renting out the penthouse.
Nearly a month later, the two
close friends are among the last
of those missing in the Cham-
plain Towers South collapse,
along with Anastasia Gromova,
a 24-year-old who had just been
accepted to a program teaching
English to students in Japan.
The young go-getter was visit-
ing friends at the Surfside condo
for one last hurrah.
“She always wanted to do as
much as possible with her life,”
her father Sergiy Gromov said
Monday. “It seems like she sister and mother to cancer, her diately flew to Florida after the
knew that it was not going to father died a few years later and collapse, still sit and wait. They
last long.” she and her husband divorced. broke down in sobs Monday as
they shared the agony, watch-
Miami-Dade County authori- Back in New York, her two best ing other victims’ relatives,
ties said at least 97 people died friends, as close as sisters, wait in alongside whom they waited for
from the June 24 collapse. As of agony. weeks, return home after their
loved one was identified.
Monday, 95 of those victims had
been identified, with potentially “It feels like the wound gets
at least one more person buried deeper with each day that she is “We are still waiting,” her
in the rubble. not located,” friend Dawn Falco mother, Larysa Gromova, said
said. “After falling victim to such through tears. “It’s too much,
“The weirdest thing about this a horrendous tragedy, she at least it’s taking too long.”
whole thing is that Estelle’s best deserves to be placed to rest with
friend in the whole building is dignity.” “We are the last ones,” he said.
Linda,” said Hedaya’s boss Joe “It’s terrible, it’s painful.”
Murphy. Hedaya, chief operating officer
for jewelry company the Conti- Anna Gromova described her
Leah Sutton, a close friend of nental Buying Group, was feel- sister as a bright star, who always
both women who celebrated ing especially confident after a knew what she wanted and went
holidays and birthdays with recent weight loss, her boss Joe after it.
them, said it’s doubly heart- Murphy said. To celebrate, she
breaking. bought a new red Lexus, just As the days pass, her family
two months earlier. Her favorite struggles with the whys.
“Friends in life and souls in color.
death,” said Sutton, who said she “Why her, why us, why this
is struggling to make sense of it The 54-year-old also had a blog building, why today, why not
all. “Maybe Linda and Estelle are called “Follow the Toes,” where yesterday, just so many ques-
showing the way to heaven to all she documented her interna- tions,” her mother said quietly.
the other victims.” tional travels, foodie delights,
dieting success and favorite spas. “She went on a two-week vaca-
The recovery efforts feel pain- tion. She was a young girl. She
fully slow for their families as ADVERTISEMENT had all her life in front of her,”
it stretches into a fourth week. Like March and Hedaya, An- said the grieving mother. “Such
Officials said Sunday they are astasia Gromova also loved to a sudden thing, so many build-
“working to dewater the lower travel, and enjoyed good food ings in Miami. It had to be hers
levels of the collapse,” lament- and wine, her mother said. Al- for the one week she was here.”
ing it’s becoming increasingly though decades apart in age, the
difficult to identify victims dur- women were all fiercely inde-
ing this phase of the search. pendent.
They are relying heavily on the
medical examiner and highly Gromova was visiting with
technical processes to identify 23-year-old Michelle Pazos at
remains. her father Miguel’s apartment.
Michelle’s body was found 10
March, a bubbly and outgoing days ago and police said the
58-year-old attorney, was always body of Miguel Pazos, 55, was
eager to strike up a conversation. found July 8.
She loved the beach and was
looking for a new start in Miami. Gromova’s parents and sister,
In the past decade, she’d lost her who live in Canada and imme-