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Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office identifies 49 COVID-19 deaths

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Posted at 4:21 PM, Apr 07, 2020
and last updated 2020-04-07 17:23:51-04

MILWAUKEE COUNTY — The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office has identified 49 people who have died from complications of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus (as of Tuesday morning).

The following people died from COVID-19 while in Milwaukee County:

1) 66-year-old Lawrence Riley of Milwaukee (died 3/19)
2) 54-year-old Roderick Crape of Milwaukee (died 3/20)
3) 69-year-old Lenard Wells of Olive Branch (died 3/21)
4) 60-year-old Ralph Davis of Milwaukee (died 3/25)
5) 57-year-old Sheila Staten of West Allis (died 3/25)
6) 79-year-old Callie M. Roundtree of Milwaukee (died 3/26)
7) 65-year-old Carolyn V. Johnson of of Milwaukee (died 3/26)
8) 55-year-old Nola Boyd of Milwaukee (died 3/26)
9) 69-year-old Tommie Lee Loving (died 3/26)
10) 58-year-old Minor M. Powers of Milwaukee (died 3/28)
11) 71-year-old Robert James Jackson of Milwaukee (died 3/29)
12) 49-year-old Isaac Vasquez Gonzalez of Milwaukee (died 3/30)
13) 71-year-old Frances A. Johnson of Milwaukee (died 3/30)
14) 70-year-old Ada Mae Moye of Milwaukee (died 3/31)
15) 73-year-old James Mervin Wallace of Oak Creek (died 3/31)
16) 72-year-old Inosencio Martinez of Milwaukee (died 3/31)
17) 85-year-old Mattie Ann Davis of Pewaukee (died 3/31)
18) 65-year-old Shirley I. Bennett of Milwaukee (died 3/31)
19) 89-year-old Richard Ernest Malmberg of South Milwaukee (died 4/1)
20) 78-year-old Jacqueline B. Moore of Milwaukee (died 4/1)
21) 83-year-old Henry Sharkey of Milwaukee (died 4/1)
22) 56-year-old Robert K. Johnson of Milwaukee (died 4/1)
23) 73-year-old Ned Lee Moton of Milwaukee (died 4/1)
24) 80-year-old Leatha Pearl Nickler of Milwaukee (died 4/2)
25) 92-year-old John F. Morton of Milwaukee (died 4/2)
26) 60-year-old Lynne Veronica Schwebe of Milwaukee (died 4/2)
27) 75-year-old Annie Cleveland of Milwaukee (died 4/2)
28) 91-year-old Glenn Wefel of Milwaukee (died 4/2)
29) 75-year-old Leonard McGhee of Caledonia (died 4/2)
30) 71-year-old Laurel J. Harrell of Milwaukee (died 4/2)
31) 82-year-old Jesse Lee of Milwaukee (died 4/3)
32) 93-year-old Teel Joshua of Milwaukee (died 4/3)
33) 73-year-old Edward R. Litkowski of Milwaukee (died 4/3)
34) 59-year-old Derrie K. Jefferson of Milwaukee (died 4/3)
35) 77-year-old Ruthie M. Brock of Milwaukee (died 4/3)
36) 74-year-old Jerilynn M. Barley of Milwaukee (died 4/4)
37) 69-year-old Mildred Stanfield of Milwaukee (died 4/4)
38) 79-year-old Kathleen Ann Spek of Franklin (died 4/4)
39) 90-year-old Corlethus Thomas of Milwaukee (died 4/4)
40) 65-year-old Mary Scholz of St. Francis (died 4/4)
41) 80-year-old Charles Broughton of Milwaukee (died 4/4)
42) 71-year-old Jerald Coleman of Milwaukee (died 4/4)
43) 77-year-old Eugene Murell Dalton of Milwaukee (died 4/4)
44) 85-year-old Beverly Wefel of Milwaukee (died 4/4)
45) 76-year-old Marion Harmon of Milwaukee (died 4/5)
46) 64-year-old Ricky Walters of Milwaukee (died 4/6)
47) 77-year-old Michael Welch of Oak Creek (died 4/6)
48) 84-year-old Donald Stolpa of Greendale (died 4/6)
49) 76-year-old Theordis Terry of Milwaukee (died 4/6)

35 of the 49 victims are black, 12 are white, and two are Hispanic when separated by race. 20 of the 49 victims are women and 29 are men. 42 of the 49 victims are 60 or older, and 7 of the 49 victims are below the age of 60.

94 people have died across the state of Wisconsin with more than 2,600 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

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