Renada McGuire, Resilient Home Health Aide, Dies at 39

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The challenges kept coming at Renada McGuire, and she kept rising to the occasion.

Whether raising six children as a single mother, fighting through kidney and heart problems or learning how to fish, Ms. McGuire, family and friends said, was determined to triumph.

While raising her first son, who was born prematurely and developed a mental disability, Ms. McGuire decided to become a home health aide specializing in mentally challenged adults.

“There was just a spunk she had in her,” her sister-in-law Natasha Guerrero said.

Ms. McGuire died on July 4 at Baptist Medical Center South in Jacksonville, Fla. The cause was complications of the novel coronavirus, her family said. She was 39 and lived nearby in Palm Coast.