Brothers 5 y.o. Andrew and 2 y.o. Conner Urey from Townville Pennsylvania were orphaned due to COVID-19. #KidsLivingWithCovid meadvilletribune.com/news/fundraise… 
44 y.o. Tom Urey from Townville Pennsylvania died from COVID in December 2021. His wife, Mandy, 32, died 4 weeks later. #SoulsLostToCovid
“There are days I’d like to sit and cry and drown,” said grandma, “but I have two little boys to raise.... People should get vaccinated.... it could prevent you from getting it so bad that you wind up on a ventilator and possibly losing your life.”
After battling leukemia for two years and receiving a stem cell transplant last summer, doctors told Tom the cancer was in remission.
The couple that through a dozen years of marriage had done virtually everything together — attending Tom’s races, working for their trucking company, caring for their animals and farm, raising their boys — could get back to something resembling normal.
“They thought they had the world by the tail,” Brown recalled. “They thought it was all good to go.”
But on Nov. 17 Mandy tested positive for COVID. Ten days later she was in Meadville Medical Center and Tom followed a few days later.
“She kissed me,” an emotional Brown recalled, “and told me to take care of her boys because she was scared she wasn’t going to wake up.”
Tom was 44 when he died and Mandy was 32, making them among the youngest county residents killed by COVID-19.
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