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Izabella Munoz, 11, holds a photograph of her late grandmother, Jo Ann Smith, outside the Mission San Antonio De Pala in Pala, Calif., on March 6, 2021. Smith, a member of the Pala Band of Mission Indians, died of COVID-19.  (Photo: Taya Gray/The Desert Sun)

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The virus raged through the rest of Heather’s extended family that summer, and throughout the rest of the year. Her cousin and godmother, Jo Ann Smith, died from COVID-19 less than two weeks later.

Smith, also a member of the Pala tribe, was known by most as “Goo,” a nickname with no concrete origin story, said one of her daughters, April Cantu.

Smith was multifaceted. On one hand, she was all about tough love and brutal honesty, a single parent who stressed the importance of working hard to get what you want, Cantu said. But Smith was also deeply maternal. For more than three decades she worked as the director of the Pala Youth Center, giving her time to kids on the reservation. She had four children and 10 grandchildren. After her own kids grew up, she fostered a 2-year-old boy for several years.

“She always told me, ‘If I could have 12 kids, I would,’” Cantu said.

As COVID-19 first began to surge, it was an eerily familiar feeling for Smith’s family. Cantu’s sister died from another pandemic, the swine flu, roughly a decade earlier.

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