Donald Reed Herring, the oldest brother of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, died on Tuesday night in Norman, Okla., about three weeks after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Warren, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump government thwarting response to the pandemic for months, has not previously revealed that her family was waging its own personal battle against the virus.
” My oldest brother, Don Reed, died from coronavirus on Tuesday evening. He joined the Air Force at 19 and spent his career in the military, including five and a half years off and on in combat in Vietnam. He was charming and funny, a natural leader, ” she said.
” I’m grateful to the nurses and frontline staff who took care of him, but it’s hard to know that there was no family to hold his hand or to say “I love you” one more time—and no funeral for those of us who loved him to hold each other close. I’ll miss you dearly my brother, ” she said and referring to her Massachusetts residents nurses.