At 87 years old, Gloria Schenke had lived a full life, but her eldest son says he can’t help feeling she and her family were shortchanged.
She still drove, still lived at home in Châteauguay, Que., just southwest of Montreal with his dad, her husband of 63 years, loved Christmas shopping for her grandchildren — and she’d been extremely careful throughout the pandemic, said Stephen Schenke.
But despite that, along with receiving two COVID-19 vaccines and a booster, his mom became terribly sick from the virus and died this month — making her one of more than 1,200 Quebeckers to die from COVID-19 in the past 30 days, according to the