With lungs weakened by exposure to Agent Orange in the jungles of Vietnam and a heart compromised by surgery, Ralph Bye knew that contracting COVID-19 could ravage his 73-year-old body.
That’s why Debra Bye, his wife of 11-plus years, believes her late husband resisted going to the hospital late last year.
“Before he even went into the hospital, and this was going on with the virus, he says, ‘Boy, I can pretty much tell you, if I ever get that virus, I will never make it out of there with everything that’s wrong with me,’ ” Debra Bye said.
Those words proved prophetic. Ralph Bye, a native of rural
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