It seemed like Billy Joe Driver, 84, was always around in this Alabama city after 36 years as mayor. Most weekdays you'd find Driver working at a first-floor conference table at Clanton City Hall, and many nights he'd eat at Green’s Small Town Diner with friends. The new coronavirus is just
CLANTON, Ala. — It seemed like Billy Joe Driver, 84, was always around in this Alabama city after 36 years as mayor.
The new coronavirus is just as dangerous in central Alabama as in New York City, people now know, and older folks who were close to Driver look askance these days at others who flout Alabama’s mandatory mask rule in stores or at high school football games. Many are staying home more than they did early in the pandemic.
Located halfway between Birmingham and Montgomery, Clanton is a city of about 8,800 people that's best-known for agriculture — its exit off Interstate 65 is marked by a water tower shaped like a giant peach. Conservative to the core, churches are at the heart of the community, where many spend their whole lives.
No one is positive how Driver was infected with the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — it could have been at a city meeting — but he began feeling badly around Father's Day weekend in June, said daughter Kim Driver Hayes, who lived next door to her dad with her husband. Hayes, who's a nurse, was herself sick with a milder case of COVID-19 by then; she believes she got it days earlier while helping her father work on a door. More than a half-dozen relatives caught it in all, including the mayor's brother, Don, who is still recovering.“I got to see him about 30 minutes before he passed away,” Hayes said."It was the worst time of my life.”
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