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Rita Lazos Haro

Birth
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Death
3 Jul 2020 (aged 77)
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA Add to Map
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Daughter of Jesus Haro and Luciana Lazos.

Birth Certificate available: http://genealogy.az.gov/azbirth/1943/bi0008319885.pdf
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These are some of the 91,000 people who've died since the US reopened
By Jacque Smith and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN - 25 Jul 2020

Ninety-one thousand.

Ninety-one thousand lives snatched by an unrelenting pandemic since the first state in the US reopened on April 24.

Ninety-one thousand whose dreams were cut short, plans ended prematurely.

Each one a son or daughter. Someone's uncle. A best friend. A person who left others to grieve, cry and try to carry on.

Here are some of their stories:

Siblings shared a love for homemade tamales and telenovelas

After a lifetime of being close, three siblings fell ill to the same virus and died within seven days of each other.

Rita Haro, Jose "Chico" Haro and Manuela "Nellie" Johnson were three of 20 siblings. Michael Thomson refers to his great aunts and great uncle as Tia or Tio, which are Spanish for aunt and uncle.

Rita and Nellie lived with their sister Delores in a small house in Tucson, Arizona, a state where coronavirus cases have been surging. All three sisters tested positive for the virus in June, Thomson said. He believes they caught it from the few unmasked visitors who came to check on them, or when Nellie and her family stopped at some casinos while driving back from Washington state.

Chico and his son tested positive for the virus, Thomson said. Out of the five family members who got sick, only his Tia Delores survived.

Rita passed away on July 3, Chico died on July 8 and Nellie died a day later on July 9.

From the boxes of fruit empanadas they ordered from a bakery to the homemade tamales they lovingly crafted, there was a lot of amazing food in their home.

Thomson's great aunts used to make green chili and pea tamales in a white corn masa to pair with fried eggs. Thomson said they sold tamales to make extra money. Nellie was even remembered as a "tamalagist" in her obituary.

Seeing the siblings huddled together watching their favorite telenovelas was one of Thomson's fondest memories.

"We would be up late watching Mexican soap operas and they would just huddle around this little 13-inch TV in their kitchen," Thomson said. "Just having that simple life made me warm in inside."

https://tucson.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/these-are-some-of-the-91-000-people-whove-died-since-the-us-reopened/article_8adf2e31-ce41-5e80-b2b8-db7677c7dd33.html

Died from COVID as did her brother and his wife.
Daughter of Jesus Haro and Luciana Lazos.

Birth Certificate available: http://genealogy.az.gov/azbirth/1943/bi0008319885.pdf
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These are some of the 91,000 people who've died since the US reopened
By Jacque Smith and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN - 25 Jul 2020

Ninety-one thousand.

Ninety-one thousand lives snatched by an unrelenting pandemic since the first state in the US reopened on April 24.

Ninety-one thousand whose dreams were cut short, plans ended prematurely.

Each one a son or daughter. Someone's uncle. A best friend. A person who left others to grieve, cry and try to carry on.

Here are some of their stories:

Siblings shared a love for homemade tamales and telenovelas

After a lifetime of being close, three siblings fell ill to the same virus and died within seven days of each other.

Rita Haro, Jose "Chico" Haro and Manuela "Nellie" Johnson were three of 20 siblings. Michael Thomson refers to his great aunts and great uncle as Tia or Tio, which are Spanish for aunt and uncle.

Rita and Nellie lived with their sister Delores in a small house in Tucson, Arizona, a state where coronavirus cases have been surging. All three sisters tested positive for the virus in June, Thomson said. He believes they caught it from the few unmasked visitors who came to check on them, or when Nellie and her family stopped at some casinos while driving back from Washington state.

Chico and his son tested positive for the virus, Thomson said. Out of the five family members who got sick, only his Tia Delores survived.

Rita passed away on July 3, Chico died on July 8 and Nellie died a day later on July 9.

From the boxes of fruit empanadas they ordered from a bakery to the homemade tamales they lovingly crafted, there was a lot of amazing food in their home.

Thomson's great aunts used to make green chili and pea tamales in a white corn masa to pair with fried eggs. Thomson said they sold tamales to make extra money. Nellie was even remembered as a "tamalagist" in her obituary.

Seeing the siblings huddled together watching their favorite telenovelas was one of Thomson's fondest memories.

"We would be up late watching Mexican soap operas and they would just huddle around this little 13-inch TV in their kitchen," Thomson said. "Just having that simple life made me warm in inside."

https://tucson.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/these-are-some-of-the-91-000-people-whove-died-since-the-us-reopened/article_8adf2e31-ce41-5e80-b2b8-db7677c7dd33.html

Died from COVID as did her brother and his wife.


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