By Bram Sable-Smith, WPR/Wisconsin Watch
Harper Marten donned a mask, gown, gloves, face shield and booties for a July 10 visit with her father, Warren Shore. She had not seen him in person since March.
Inside the memory care unit at Parkview Gardens, a senior living community in Racine, Marten held her sleeping father’s hand. Marten told him she loved him and sang “My Funny Valentine,” a song Shore taught her when she was a child.
Those would be her last 30 minutes with her father, who died the next day — five days after testing positive for COVID-19.
To read the rest of this Wisconsin Watch report, click on the headline.