Remembering Jana Prince

Age 43, Gretna, La.
Passed away on April 6, 2020

As someone with cerebral palsy, Jana Marie Prince had plenty of her own problems, but friends and family members say she was most interested in helping other people with theirs.

“The illness affected the entire left side of her body,” her brother Paul Anthony Prince Jr. said in a phone interview. “I can remember when we were small she was teased about it. She never let that stop her from reaching her goals. She dedicated her life to social services. She wanted to give back and touch lives.”

Ms. Prince, who was 43 and lived in Marrero, La., a New Orleans suburb, died of the new coronavirus at a hospital in Gretna, La., on April 6. But that was just the beginning of a terrible month of April for the Prince family.

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