Seven children in Detroit, ages 10 to 23, have been orphaned after their parents died of COVID-19 on Labor Day weekend.
Charletta and Troy Green, both 44, spent their 22nd wedding anniversary in separate ICUs, thousands of miles away after catching the virus last month.
On September 5, Charletta, who was connected to a fan in Florida, lost the battle with the disease and died. Just eight hours later, at a Michigan hospital, Troy died of a heart attack.
He was not vaccinated either.
His niece, Asha Dumas, said the whole family had planned to get vaccinated together, but “honestly, time is up.”
‘We all got vaccinated shortly after his diagnosis [on August 13]”he told MailOnline.
The couple’s seven children: Troy Jr. 10-year-old Tori, 11-year-old Tayla, 15-year-old Tayla, 17-year-old Tamaya, 19-year-old Trinity, 21-year-old Tatianna and 23-year-old Tylisa are now left to grow up in a family home.
The entire Green family had planned to get vaccinated together, said his niece Asha Dumas, but “honestly, time is up.” Charletta (center right) and Troy Green (center left) were admitted to hospitals on August 13 and died of COVID-related complications on September 6 within hours.
The couple met when they were both 14, Dumas said. Charletta dialed a list of phone numbers on the yellow pages, making crank calls. He called Troy’s mother’s house and the two had an instant relationship. They died within eight hours of each other on Sept. 6 from complications of COVID-19
The green children, aged 10, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 23, now live without their parents at their parents ’house, left to pick up the pieces. The family never anticipated that the story of Charletta and Troy would end so suddenly
“We’re just telling them we’re here, we love them and we’ll support them as much as we can,” Troy’s sister Tiki Green told FOX 2. “And we just try to get help for them, because these kids didn’t ask for it, they didn’t expect it.
Troy began to feel ill in mid-August and stayed home when Charletta and her children went on a trip to Florida with the family. Two days later, Charletta was hospitalized.
Back in Detroit, Troy was taken to Sinai Grace Hospital on August 13th. Two days later, on the day of their wedding anniversary, they were both transferred to the ICU units of their respective facilities.
Five of the children returned to Detroit to be with their father, Dumas said, while two stayed in Florida with their mother.
Troy’s condition worsened, his family said, when he learned that Charletta’s health was rapidly failing.
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‘When [Troy] he realized that his wife, you know, might not get better, after he feels like he’s on a fan and he’s there one hundred percent constantly, he … couldn’t catch that. I just started having chest pains and finally a couple of hours later it happened, ”said Sister Tiki Green.
Along with a double funeral, Dumas told MailOnline, the proceeds from the family’s GoFundMe initiative will cover the rent, food and school clothes of the seven children during the holidays.
“Her lungs were badly damaged and … they just couldn’t do more for her,” Green said.
“When he realized that his wife, you know, might not get better, after he felt like he was in a fan and he was putting 100% in it constantly, he … couldn’t take that. He just started to having chest pains and finally a couple of hours later it happened ”.
On September 6, eight hours after Charletta’s death, Troy succumbed to a fatal heart attack.
“We always knew they would come home,” Green said. “So for neither of us to go home, words can’t explain how we feel right now.”
“You have no idea how much pain I felt telling my aunt that I love her so much and I got it!” Seeing her take her last breath, “Dumas wrote in a corrupt Facebook post on September 8th.
‘I grew up surrounded by love [my Uncle]! I don’t know … how I was there and helping to give this news to my cousins or my mother, my soul is PAINING.
The couple had grown up together after meeting when they were 14 years old.
Charletta had been dialing a list of phone numbers on the yellow pages, making crank calls. He called Troy’s mother’s house and the two had an instant relationship.
Now, Green urges others not to suspend COVID vaccines.
“I know it doesn’t stop you from hiring her in general, but I think you’ll at least have a fighting chance,” he told FOX 2.
“So I’m stressing everyone in my family (should) get vaccinated because I can’t do this again. Covid brings too many people.
Along with a double funeral, Dumas told MailOnline, the proceeds from the family’s GoFundMe initiative will cover the rent, food and school clothes of the seven children during the holidays. To date, $ 3,390 has been raised from a $ 15,000 target.