Video: Coronavirus funeral for Mansour Tadros
Mansour Tadros died on March 28 as a result of the coronavirus and was buried in a “social distancing” funeral on March 31 at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. This is a video of the funeral in which mourners were forced by social distancing requirements set by the nation and the State of Illinois to remain in their vehicles from Lawn Funeral Home in Tinley Park to the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Worth, Illinois.
By Ray Hanania
The passing on March 28,2020 of Mansour Tadros was a shock to the Arab American community.
Tadros was a popular newspaper publisher who lived in Tinley Park in Illinois. A Jordanian immigrant who came here at the age of 17 with his parents from their home in Na’ur, Jordan, a suburb of Amman, died from the coronavirus.
Tadros went to the hospital on Tuesday March 24 and was told on Wednesday to return home and self-quarantine. But on Saturday, March 28, Tadros began having severe difficulty breathing and died in the ambulance on the way back to the hospital.
Mansour Tadros, who died on March 28, 2020. Photo courtesy of the Tadros family
The family was forced to adhere to social-distancing requirements imposed by the nation as a result of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic so there was no public wake or service. The public was able to attend the burial as long as they remained in their vehicles.
Here is video of that unusual coronavirus funeral that I took as a member of the funeral procession to document what happened.
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
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