Sundee Rutter wasn’t surrounded by her loved ones during her final moments.
Rutter, a 42-year-old stage 4 breast cancer survivor and single mother of six, lost her battle to COVID-19 on March 16 in Washington state, ABC affiliate KOMO news reported earlier this month.
Due to the need to social distance in order help quell the spread of the virus, Rutter’s mother, sister and all of her children gathered around a small window looking into her hospital room and said goodbye to her through a walkie-talkie, BuzzFeed News reported Monday.
“I told her I love her … she shouldn’t worry about the kids,” Elijah Ross-Rutter, her fourth-oldest child, told the website….
