
Mary Virginia McKeon, 65, Chicago, devoured art in every medium. Michael Sorkin, 71, New York City, champion of social justice through architecture. Leroy Perryman Jr., 74, Hazel Crest, Ill., ultimate entertainer. Christine McLaurin, 86, Chicago, never at a loss for words. Freddy Rodriguez Sr., 89, Denver, played the saxophone at Denver’s oldest jazz club for 40 years. Peggy Rakestraw, 72, Matteson, Ill., loved reading, especially mystery novels. Wanda Bailey, 63, Crete, Ill., one of nine siblings. Frederick Carl Harris, 70, Massachusetts, an exuberant laugh. Susan Rokus, 73, Hamilton, Va., reading tutor focused on student success. Ricardo Castaneda, 64, New York City, caricaturist and psychiatrist who served his patients until the end. Landon Spradlin, 66, Concord, N.C., preacher and blues guitarist. Gerald Anthony Morales, 91, Louisiana, an encyclopedic knowledge of old Hollywood. West Jr., 71, Camden, S.C., avid observer and participant in South Carolina politics. Robert Earl Schaefer, 87, Seattle, radiologist, woodworker, artist and scholar. Mark Blum, 69, New York City, Obie Award-winning stage and screen actor. Irvin Herman, 94, Indianapolis, Army man modest about his service in the Pacific. Maria Linda Villanueva Sun, 61, Newport News, Va., organized food programs for children in the Philippines. Romi Cohn, 91, New York City, saved 56 Jewish families from the Gestapo. Kious Kelly, 48, New York City, nurse in the Covid fight. Floyd Cardoz, 59, Montclair, N.J., Indian chef of fine dining. Alan Finder, 72, Ridgewood, N.J., unflappable New York Times journalist. Terrence McNally, 81, Sarasota, Fla., Tony-winning playwright of gay life. Joseph Graham, 67, Chicago, school custodian and steppin’ aficionado. Sterling Maddox Jr., 78, Arlington, Va., developer known for his friendliness. Theresa Elloie, 63, New Orleans, renowned for her business making detailed pins and corsages. Going, 87, Grafton, Wis., Green Bay Packers season ticket holder for 50 years. Upjohn, 91, Burlingame, Calif., conducted clinical research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Laneeka Barksdale, 47, Detroit, ballroom dancing star. Dez-Ann Romain, 36, New York City, innovative high school principal. George Freeman Winfield, 72, Shelburne, Vt., could make anything grow. Dave Edwards, 48, New York City, college basketball assist wizard. Carole Brookins, 76, Palm Beach, Fla., early woman on Wall Street and a World Bank official.

Walter Robb, 91, New York, former General Electric Co. Kevin Charles Patz, 64, Seattle, active in the AIDS Foundation. Arnold Obey, 73, San Juan, P.R., educator and marathoner. Horsfall, 72, Rydal, Pa., co-wrote nine books about computing. Alvin Elton, 56, Chicago, followed in his father’s footsteps as a pipefitter. Larry Rathgeb, 90, West Bloomfield Hills, Mich., engineer behind the first 200-m.p.h. Mike Longo, 83, New York City, jazz pianist, composer and educator. Carl Redd, 62, Chicago, squeezed in every moment he could with his only grandchild. John-Sebastian Laird-Hammond, 59, Washington, D.C., member of a Franciscan monastery. Lewis, 68, New Orleans, preserver of the city’s performance traditions. JoAnn Stokes-Smith, 87, Charleston, S.C., loved to travel and covered much of the globe. Fred Walter Gray, 75, Benton County, Wash., liked his bacon and hash browns crispy.

John Cofrancesco, 52, New Jersey, administrator at a nursing facility. Alan Lund, 81, Washington, conductor with “the most amazing ear”. Donald Raymond Haws, 88, Jacksonville, Fla., administered Holy Eucharist to hospital patients. Black N Mild, 44, New Orleans, bounce D.J. Michael Mika, 73, Chicago, Vietnam veteran. Luis Juarez, 54, Romeoville, Ill., traveled often in the United States and Mexico. Dry, 55, Tulsa, Okla., ordained minister. Patricia Frieson, 61, Chicago, former nurse. Loretta Mendoza Dionisio, 68, Los Angeles, cancer survivor born in the Philippines. Cornelius Lawyer, 84, Bellevue, Wash., sharecropper’s son.

Jermaine Ferro, 77, Lee County, Fla., wife with little time to enjoy a new marriage. Marion Krueger, 85, Kirkland, Wash., great-grandmother with an easy laugh. Patricia Dowd, 57, San Jose, Calif., auditor in Silicon Valley. The 1,000 names listed here reflect just 1% of the toll. As the country nears a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths attributed to the virus, The New York Times scoured obituaries and death notices honoring those who died. Numbers alone cannot possibly measure the impact of the coronavirus on America, whether it is the number of patients treated, jobs interrupted or lives cut short. (Burr), Anthony Ramos (Laurens), Lafayette, Mulligan.They were not simply names on a list. "Aaron Burr, Sir" is a song from the Broadway musical Hamilton performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton), Leslie Odom Jr. Hamilton the Musical - Aaron Burr, Sir Lyrics
