They had planned for Smith’s older brother to officiate the wedding in front of their parents at a scaled-down ceremony in a field in Lubbock, Texas, where Bassett had proposed. Bassett said they had favored the location, which he believes is an abandoned golf course.

But the couple did not marry. Smith spent her wedding day in a hospital where she had tested positive for the coronavirus and was diagnosed with pneumonia.

Jamie Bassett asks Stephanie Lynn Smith to marry him in a field in Lubbock, Texas.Sierra Avery of Sierra Avery Photography
“Today was supposed to be my wedding day,” Bassett wrote in a Facebook post Nov. 13. “Instead, Stephanie is in the hospital getting her oxygen levels up and I haven’t seen her in two days. This really sucks and I just want everything to not be this way.”

Five days later, he and Smith’s family would rush to the hospital, only to learn that she had died. She was 29.



Her mother, Oralia Smith, said Wednesday that her death certificate lists Covid-19 as the cause of death.

Bassett said that his fiancée began feeling ill on Nov. 3 but that she was not exhibiting any Covid-19 symptoms.

By Saturday, Nov. 7, food started tasting strange to her, he said, but she did not... read more>>> https://www.successdigestonline.com/five-days-after-she-was-supposed-to-get-married-woman-dies-from-covid/