YOU’LL ONLY SEE ON WYFF NEWS. THEY ELOPED AND WENT TO OKLAHOMA TAKING TIME TO REFLECT ON HOW THE MARRIAGE ALL BEGAN FOR EDNA AND LEE REEDUS 66 YEARS, THEY STUCK TOGETHER AND NOW THEIR DAUGHTER TANA JOHNSON IS SADDENED BY THE WAY THEIR UNION ON EARTH ENDED TO HAVE THEM LEAVE. AND SUCH A THE HORRIBLE FASHION YOU KNOW, IT’S THAT IS SOMETHING I’M JUST NOT GOING TO GET OVER JOHNSON SAYS EDNA AND LEE CAME DOWN WITH COVID-19 IN OCTOBER. SHE SAYS THE VIRUS WORSE AND LEE’S PARKINSON’S AND EDNA’S ALREADY DAMAGED KIDNEYS. THIS IS HELL. THIS IS HELL ON EARTH FAMILY SAYS EDNA PASSED AWAY ON NOVEMBER 14TH IN JUST FOUR DAYS LATER LEE DIED, ESPECIALLY IN SINCE THEIR RETIREMENT. THEY BECAME SO DEPENDENT ON ONE ANOTHER. THAT YOU KNOW LEAVING TOGETHER. IT WAS NOTHING THAT I WOULDN’T HAVE EXPECTED EDNA AND LEA LEAVE BEHIND THREE KIDS IN FIVE GRANDCHILDREN ONE GRANDCHILD SHARED WHAT SHE LEARNED FROM THE TO YOU GET UP AND YOU LOVE AND YOU TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE IN THE MATTER. WHAT NO MATTER HOW YOU FEEL YOU JUST DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO CARE FOR ANOTHER PERSON A LEGACY LEFT BEHIND. THEY NEVER GAVE UP ON LIFE AND LOVE AND POURING IN ANDERSON
WILLIAMSTON, S.C. —
A South Carolina couple died just days apart from each other after getting COVID-19.
Family members said Edna and Lee Redus were married for 66 years.Advertisement
Edna passed away on Nov. 11 and just four days later, Lee died.
“To have them leave in horrible fashion, that is something I’m not going to get over,” said Tauna Johnson, daughter of Edna and Lee.
Johnson said Edna and Lee came down with COVID-19 in October. She said the virus worsened Lee’s Parkinson’s disease and Edna’s already damaged kidneys.
“I do think that’s a lesson that, you know, look at what it can do and how horrible it is,” said Johnson.
Now the family is remembering their loved ones. Lee was an Air Force Veteran and Edna worked in mills. They had three children and five grandchildren. Johnson shared what she learned from her parent’s marriage.
“You’ve just got to stick it out, you know, thick and thin, you know, the good, the bad, the ugly,” Johnson said. “Their lives were not easy lives, there were many struggles, but you know what? They never gave up. They never gave up on life and love.”
