A18 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST.SUNDAY, MAY 8 , 2022
PHOTOS BY KRISTIAN THACKER FOR THE WASHINGTON POSTCLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Karima Howard holds a wreath she made after her co-worker Marlon Lucas died of covid in Pittsburgh
in 2020. When the Port Authority bus driver died, his co-workers said, the union lost a sense of unity. One of Marlon’s work shirts was
signed by fellow drivers. Frank Barber w ent t o grade school with Marlon and shared stories at the East Liberty bus garage about what
happened on their routes. A laser-etched crystal memorial of Marlon and D ana Lucas’s life together at Dana’s home in Pittsburgh. Dana,
who was married to Marlon for 34 years and planned to retire with him to the Maryland countryside, said life is now a blur without him.
Port Authority buses pass each other near the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning in the Oakland area.“I’m still a mom, but what is my purpose? I’m a new grandma —is that my new purpose? I’m just at a loss sometimes.”
Dana Lucas, Marlon Lucas’s widow