The mother of a 28-year-old Richland Two teacher who died from complications of COVID-19, has also died from the virus, according to family.
Shirley Bannister was the Department Chair for Nursing at Midlands Tech and told NBC affiliate WIS in 2019 nursing was her “God-given passion.”
“She finds more than 24 hours in the day, and I don’t know how she does it to make the world a better place,” said colleague Kelly Horn in 2019.
Bannister lost her daughter Demi on Sept. 7, and she was hospitalized due to COVID-19 a couple of days later, sister-in-law Shirley Mills Bannister said.
Mills Bannister, who says she loved sharing a first name with her relative, describes Bannister as a “wonderful, wonderful person.” She added her sister-in-law was, “certainly an angel on Earth, there is no doubt about that.”