Besties for 78 years die of coronavirus 6 days apart, now 'They're together up there'
For 78 years — through adolescence, marriage, children, jobs, widowhood and dementia — Mary and Jessie remained devoted friends.
They bickered the way best girlfriends sometimes do. They teased each other about boys they'd grown up with in their old neighborhood on Detroit's east side. And they teased each other about getting older. Mary never failed to take joy in the fact that she was a little more than three months younger than Jessie. But they always found their way back to each other.
Even at the very end.
Like so many elderly people during this pandemic, Mary Hackett and Jessie "Toots" Ancona, both 91, were living in metro Detroit nursing homes when they became sick with COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.
They were transferred to Beaumont Hospital in Troy within days of each other and, unbeknownst to them, ended up in rooms just two floors apart.
They died within six days of each other — Mary on April 5, Jessie on April 11 — without their families at their bedsides because that is the way people die these days.
But neither of them were alone.
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