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She painted with adults with intellectual disabilities after giving birth to a child with difficulties. He died of headaches from the new coronavirus.
By Aaron Randle
This obituary is part of a series of other people who died in the coronavirus pandemic. Learn more about others here.
The challenges continued to reach Renada McGuire, and she continued to live up to the occasion.
Whether raising six children as a single mother, struggling with kidney and downtown problems, or learning to fish, McGuire, her circle of family and friends said she was determined to win.
While raising her first child, who was born prematurely and developed an intellectual disability, Ms. McGuire became a home care assistant specializing in adults with intellectual disabilities.
“There was courage she had in her, ” said her sister-in-law Natasha Guerrero.
Ms. McGuire died on July 4 at Baptist Medical Center South in Jacksonville, Florida. The cause of the headaches of the new coronavirus, his circle of relatives said. He was 39 years old and lived near the Palm Coast.
The disease came days after Ms. McGuire and her boyfriend, Brooks Greene, dined at a place to eat in Jacksonville as the pandemic was on the rise in Florida.
Renada McGuire was born on November 28, 1980, in St. Augustine, Florida, to Jorge Guerrero Sr., an agricultural worker, and Patricia McGuire, a domestic fitness worker. He followed his mother’s last name.
When he was young, his father was deported to Guatemala, his home country, and never again learned of the circle of relatives. His departure made his older brother, Jorge Jr., the patriarch of the family circle, and made McGuire, according to his circle of relatives, a lifelong fighter.
“He didn’t back down on anything, ” said Natasha Guerrero.
When Ms. McGuire was a child, she represented her brother every time she thought he threatened him. “She’s the little sister, but she’s tough, ” said Guerrero with a smile. “There were times,” Jorge told me, “she would be tougher than Jorge.”
An RB music lover, Ms. McGuire has worried about “everything similar to music” while studying at Allen D. Nease High School in Ponte Vedra, where a member of the flag team, the winter guard and the school band was located. learn to play the flute and clarinet.
She has become a fishing enthusiast after being recently taken fishing through Mr. Greene. With him by her side, she was looking for “any little water she could find, fishing several times a week,” Guerrero said. “It brought him peace.
“The strength she had as a mother, that was the most important thing about her,” Guerrero said.
Ms. McGuire is survived by her brother and children: Elijah, 19, Victerius, 17, Tyvicrean, 16, Alexius, 12, Kourtney, 10 and Davian, 6.
To lighten their burden, Jorge and Ms. Guerrero, who have four children of their own, saw Ms. McGuire’s children over the weekend.
This weekend already has full-time paper: they have welcomed the children.
“They want us right now, ” said Guerrero. And, at the same time, I think my husband wants it too. She’s all she’s got left.
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