Patrick Sawyer, the man who recently died of Ebola in Lagos, is also an American citizen, and he has a wife, Decontee Sawyer, and three daughters in Minnesota.
In an interview with KSTP, Decontee spoke on how sad she was that their three young daughters will never get to know their father more.
“I don’t want all of this to be for nothing. I have three girls who will never get to know their father.”
The man lived in Minnesota for about a decade before moving back to Liberia in 2008 but he still visited regularly. In fact Patrick Sawyer was scheduled to join his family in Minnesota this August to celebrate two of his daughters’ birthdays.