“As the coronavirus pandemic intensified, Leilani Jordan insisted on going to her job as a clerk at a Maryland grocery so she could help seniors …. She had challenges … as a worker with cerebral palsy. But as shoppers around the country raided shelves for necessities in early to mid-March, Jordan wanted to make sure the elderly got theirs. ‘It’s just crazy here at work … but somebody’s got to do it,’ Jordan [told] her mother, Zenobia Shepherd. ‘I’ve got to help the older people.’ ‘She was doing everything for them: Helping them put their groceries in their walkers, to helping them get into lifts,’ Shepherd said.”
Jordan, 27, who her mother called “Butterfly,” died last week. Read story here and here.