We need to remember that a #COVID19MB statistic is never just a statistic. This is a thread about Elsie Signatovich... my Baba, my grandmother.

On November 26, after having contracted Covid, she died.

On November 29, she was listed in the Province of Manitoba's daily...

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...Covid statistics as "a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg health region, linked to an outbreak at Holy Family Home":
https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=49914...

But there's a whole life behind that statistic. She was far more than "a female in her 90s from the Winnipeg Health Region".

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She was very loved by all of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. She will be very much missed by her sister, my great-Auntie Olga, now the last from her immediate family.

She was one of the most caring, funny, and generous people I will...

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...ever know. Her food was legendary!

I will always value the time I had with her and my Dido when I was a little kid, out camping with the whole extended family, when only me and the old people were awake early in the morning.

She was one of the last...

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... of the old-school North End Ukrainians, speaking with a thick Ukrainian accent despite being born and raised in Manitoba.

Yes, she was old. Yes, she had underlying health conditions. But isn't who she was, or the life she lived. She mattered to many people.

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Please take a few moments to read a bit about how our family wanted her to be remembered - as far more than just another statistic of the coronavirus pandemic:
https://cropo.com/.../7565/ELSIE-SIGNATOVICH/obituary.html

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Previous link appears to be broken. Here is the proper link:
https://cropo.com/tribute/details/7565/ELSIE-SIGNATOVICH/obituary.html