Adolph “T.J.” Mendez was still playing basketball with friends earlier this month. He died from complications of COVID-19 on Thursday.
“Every Sunday they would give out stickers to the kids in their bibles and the little kindergarteners would give him stickers to put on his name badge,” Brenda Johnson, Mendez’s daughter,From the pews of Oakwood Church, where he taught kindergarteners on Sunday, to the local basketball court where he often played, Mendez was a beloved member of his close-knit community in Texas Hill Country.
On Thursday, March 19, Mendez still didn’t feel well and returned to his doctor. This time the doctor sent him to the hospital for a COVID-19 test. After he got the test, Mendez was told to go home and self-quarantine. But on March 23, at 3 a.m. in the morning, Mendez was taken to a local hospital by ambulance after his fever spiked. That night, he was transferred to a hospital in Austin for an emergency surgery. The next day, his test results finally came back. He had COVID-19.
“We want people to know that they need to take this pandemic SERIOUSLY — it is not just something that happens across the world,” added Johnson. “This can happen to anyone, just as it did us.”The day after Mendez died, Ray Still, pastor at Oakwood Church, put out a. Like Johnson, Still used his statement not only to mourn the loss of his parishioner but also to compel other members to take this disease seriously.
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