Ethel Lewsey was three days away from her 100th birthday when she died due to complications of COVID-19 at the Maples Personal Care Home.Her family laid her to rest Tuesday, broken-hearted by what they call a failed system.
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But she’s gone now and if it wasn’t for COVID and what was going on in that facility, she would still be here today. I don’t know for how much longer but at the end of the day she would be here,” said her son, Lawrence Lewsey.Lewsey said he found out in the middle of October that there was a COVID-19 positive case in the facility and his mom had tested.