Son's gorgeous tribute to his late father lost to coronavirus goes viral

John Pijanowski posted a tribute to his late father, Donald John Pijanowski, on Twitter after he passed away on April 1, 2020 from COVID-19. He was 87.

I want to tell you about my dad, Donald John Pijanowski. He was born on October 30, 1932 and he passed away today at 12:07pm, April 1, 2020. The doctors tell us it was covid19 which means we were not allowed in the hospital to be with him for his last days. pic.twitter.com/UC52BKvhmjPijanowski told TODAY that he first caught wind that something was not right with his father when he called him on March 29 like he usually did every Sunday and he didn’t pick up.

Story continues“He was a guy who is at the center of just about every important community event in my entire life growing up,” Pijanowski said. “My memories of him, a lot of them are around playing sports. He loved helping neighborhood kids. From the time I was a kid — whether it was playing ice hockey out in the driveway, youth nights at the local church, baseball games for his company league — he always had to thrust himself into the center of those things.

“When he was in the hospital it was so unbearably hard to not be with him,” he said. “All of our instinct was to immediately get to Buffalo as fast as we could to get to the hospital. Of course, nobody’s allowed inside of the hospital and it’s not the right thing to do for other people who are working there, the community or our own families. We had to follow those rules because they’re there for a reason to keep people safe, but it’s hard.

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