He died June 23 at Mission Hospital, on the day visitor restrictions relaxed enough to allow his brother to be with him when it happened. Reagan Henry, 39, was a beloved father, son and caregiver. Since then, the pandemic that's killed more than 776,000 Americans has taken its tragic toll on the county, claiming hundreds of lives.īrianna Justus was a 31-year-old mother who died shortly after delivering a child via emergency C-section. George Lloyd Lamb, 81, was the first county resident to die of COVID-19 on Majust a few weeks after the first reported case in the county. 29, were for two Buncombe County natives who celebrated 55 years of marriage in October. The two most recent death records, which came into Reisinger's office Nov. Those records show that COVID-19 has been claiming lives in Buncombe County for 20 months. His death certificate is one of more than 800 processed through the Buncombe County Register of Deeds office listing COVID-19 or related complications, like COVID-19 pneumonia and acute respiratory failure among causes of death.
“And he would always just try to make sure that the kids would get to go to the mall, and do stuff they’d normally not get to do up here,” Amy Dickert said.ĬOVID-19 cut that career short, and unfortunately, stories like his aren’t unique. One year, he did two in one day, one in North Carolina and one in South Carolina, she said. Many marching bands do two or three competitions per year, but Jason would take his students to as many as six a year, Amy Dickert said, including one year when he took them to competitions in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Jason Dickert interviewed and got the job. He didn’t graduate from Mars Hill in the 1990s, instead heading back to Greenville where he worked in law enforcement for several agencies, she said.īut he went back to chase his dream and graduated with a music degree from Mars Hill in 2015.Īnd in a turn of fate, one of Amy’s friends called in late summer 2016 to let them know the previous Murphy band director had resigned the week before band camp. He was drum major at his high school in Greenville, where he played in the Greenville Youth Orchestra as a teenager, she said, and when he went to Mars Hill College in the 1990s, was drum major there too.Ī national champion marching with Carolina Crown, he also marched with The Spirit of Atlanta, whose rendition of Amazing Grace was one of the most amazing things he ever heard, Amy Dickert said. She said he could play every instrument, but not one to blend in with the crowd, his main instrument was the mellophone. “Music was everything to him,” Dickert said. She remembers a wonderful, outgoing man who held his relationship with Jesus paramount and who dedicated his life to music, a history buff who was also like a big kid in ways, keeping a collection of Batmobiles. This Thanksgiving, he wasn’t there to cut the turkey. Preparing for a tough holiday without Jason, Amy Dickert said he was always the life of the party, always one to engage in conversation and trying to get a laugh. "The thing that came up over and over again was how much he helped people when they needed it, whether financially, or they needed a place to stay, he’d take them to the doctor,” Amy Dickert said.
Memorial services for Jason Dickert, a 48-year-old Murphy High School band director, were held in his hometown of Greenville, S.C., and in Murphy, his wife Amy Dickert, 46, said.
"And as we're going back into the holidays right now, we've got to make sure everyone takes this seriously." "As we continue to see death records coming in for young people, for people of all sectors of the community, I strongly advise my friends and family to get vaccinated," he said. It's enough for Reisinger to feel like he's living in two different realities: the one in his office chronicling the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic and another in the community where safety precautions are often ignored. His is one of hundreds of deaths that have been recorded at the Buncombe County Register of Deeds Drew Reisinger's office, which continues to chronicle COVID-19 deaths as the rest of the county hopes to move past the pandemic. Jason Dickert was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Aug. Watch Video: Some nations restrict travel amid virus variant
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