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Family rejoices as mother recovers from months-long COVID illness

Yolanda Salinas returns home with fanfare on Monday after spending nine months hospitalized with COVID-19 (Photo contributed).

homecoming covid — Yolanda Salinas returns home with fanfare on Monday after spending nine months hospitalized with COVID-19 (Photo contributed).

Sabra Stafford

Published: Jun 30, 2021, 3:37 AM

It had been more than nine months since Yolanda Salinas had been inside her own home, but on Monday she got to take the step that at times over the last year seemed like it might never happen.

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Remembering a ‘fierce defender of freedom’

During a Memorial Day ceremony held on Monday at Turlock Memorial Park, Marsha Gonsalves, with the support of her husband Larry, shares memories of their son, Sgt. 1st Class Chad Gonsalves, who died on Feb. 13, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee north of Deh Rawod in central Afghanistan (KRISTINA HACKER/The Journal).

Memorial Day 1 — During a Memorial Day ceremony held on Monday at Turlock Memorial Park, Marsha Gonsalves, with the support of her husband Larry, shares memories of their son, Sgt. 1st Class Chad Gonsalves, who died on Feb. 13, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee north of Deh Rawod in central Afghanistan (KRISTINA HACKER/The Journal).

Kristina Hacker

Turlock Journal

Published: May 28, 2025, 6:55 AM

Every Memorial Day, locals put on their red, white and blue attire, maybe don a red poppy in remembrance of the fallen, and make their way to Turlock Memorial Park cemetery.

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