{"id":140432,"date":"2020-04-14T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=140432"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:13:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:13:55","slug":"mother-of-nbas-karl-anthony-towns-dies-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/14\/mother-of-nbas-karl-anthony-towns-dies-from-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of NBA\u2019s Karl Anthony Towns dies from coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jacqueline Cruz, the proud Dominican mom of Minnesota Timberwolves player Karl-Anthony Towns, has died after battling complications due to coronavirus in New York for around a month. Her son was the star center of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Towns was named to the Dominican national basketball team when he was 16 years old.
Towns said his mother worked for the medical department at Rutgers University for over 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family issued the statement:
\n\u201cJackie, as she was affectionately known among family and friends, had been battling the virus for more than a month when she succumbed on April 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJackie was many things to many people \u2013 a wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. The matriarch of the Towns family, she was an incredible source of strength; a fiery, caring, and extremely loving person, who touched everyone she met. Her passion was palpable and her energy will never be replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Towns family is extremely grateful for the outpouring of love and support they have received during this very difficult time. They would like to thank the medical warriors at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and JFK Medical Center, who fought for Jackie day in and day out, and helped Karl Sr. recover from the same virus that took Jackie\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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14 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacqueline Cruz, the proud Dominican mom of Minnesota Timberwolves player Karl-Anthony Towns, has died after battling complications due to coronavirus in New York for around a month. Her son was the star center of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Towns was named to the Dominican national basketball team when he was 16 years old. Towns said his … <\/p>\n

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