COVID-19 Dallas, Texas
2020
The casket holding the body of Lashaye Antoinette Allen placed next to her mother Lola M. Simmons-Jones at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. A double funeral service for Lola M. Simmons-Jones and her daughter Lashaye Antoinette Allen at the Denley Drive Missionary Baptist Church in Dallas on July 30, 2020. Lola M. Simmons-Jones passed due to the coronavirus on July 15, her daughter Lashaye Antoinette Allen passed away from the coronavirus on July 20. Dallas County reported a record number of COVID-19 related deaths in a single day at 36, according to local health officials. This brings the total to 658 confirmed deaths since the first one was reported March 19.
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