This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Beth Salamensky often kept to herself. Though she was a regular member of the congregation at Beth Chayim Chadashim in Los Angeles — the first L.G.B.T.Q. And she was also alone when she died of the coronavirus, at 43, on April 17 at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Chicago. At the end of June, her cousin, Shelley Salamensky, who had been trying to reach Beth, got a Google search alert that led her to the website of Chicago Jewish Funerals.

Source: New York Times August 20, 2020 19:18 UTC