Jacksonville woman loses husband to COVID-19 complications, uses 1st wedding anniversary as vaccination event

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Lewis mislaid her husband, Jefferson Elledge, connected August 12 from complications pursuing a agelong conflict against coronavirus.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville pistillate is utilizing a time she was expecting to observe with her hubby arsenic an accidental to promote others to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

“I became a widow 17 days earlier my archetypal anniversary,” Roxie Lewis said.

Lewis mislaid her husband, Jefferson Elledge, connected Aug. 12 from complications pursuing a agelong conflict against the coronavirus.

Sunday marks what would person been the couple’s archetypal wedding anniversary.

Lewis thought she and her husband, who was affectionately called “Handsome,” would beryllium celebrating their day Sunday.

Instead, Lewis volition beryllium celebrating Jefferson’s beingness Sunday day successful Mayport.

In summation to honoring his life, Lewis is partnering with the Mayo Clinic to big a vaccination session astatine the Fleet Reserve connected Mayport Road.

Lewis said Jefferson battled COVID-19 for much than a period and ended up beating it earlier suffering complications and dying. He primitively planned to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but was unexpectedly not disposable the time helium planned to go.

Lewis said Jefferson did not travel done with uncovering a caller day earlier yet contracting COVID-19 connected July 1 and being hospitalized 5 days later.

Lewis utilized Facebook station of the infinitesimal Jefferson died to promote radical to get vaccinated.

She said that truthful acold astir 2,400 radical person decided to get the changeable due to the fact that of the post. Lewis hopes much radical marque that aforesaid determination Sunday.

“How could you unrecorded with that if you knew you gave it to somebody, and they died,?” Lewis said. “I’ve been pushing my assemblage to get the changeable truthful his combat for his beingness that helium mislaid volition not beryllium successful vain, and each the different radical who person died from this and whitethorn dice from this, nary of that volition beryllium successful vain if radical volition measurement up and get the shot.”

The vaccination session astatine the Fleet Reserve volition tally from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday/

Lewis said determination volition beryllium a solemnisation of beingness work astatine the Fleet Reserve, the spot wherever the mates besides got joined successful 2020, for Jefferson from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.