BUS DRIVER DIES OF CORONAVIRUS DRIVERS
The school district didn’t immediately answer questions regarding how many of its drivers have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the school year or how many are quarantined due to active infections. We are thankful for her service and will honor her legacy.” Gail was dedicated to Clay County District Schools working as a bus driver for more than 20 years. We want to extend our sincere condolences to her family and friends. That didn’t happen here and that’s how she got it,” said Bill Brusseau.Ĭlay Schools said in a statement: “ We are deeply saddened by the passing of our employee, Gail Brusseau. We are all in this together, and we are all in this together not just to protect ourselves, but to protect each other. “She was taken from me because some people don’t seem to understand that this COVID thing can hit anybody. The Clay County School District said it has been following procedures and protocols to clean the bus after each route at the end of the day and has required students wear masks and use assigned seating, but Bill Brusseau believes the rules haven’t been enforced strictly. With tears in his eyes, Bill Brusseau spoke to a picture of his wife saying, “I love you my sweetheart. On Wednesday, Gail Brusseau’s co-workers at Clay County Schools Transportation parked her bus outside the lot and placed flowers along the wheels and the front of the bus. “Her wishes were not to live on life support," he said. “Because I had never seen her like that.”īill Brusseau said she was in an ICU for 31 days. I went every day and even though she was in a semi-comatose - she could hear us and that was frightening to me,” Brusseau’s husband said. So what the nurses would do is put the phone up to her ear. “She had to be sedated and she couldn’t speak, but she could hear. Then, Brusseau’s husband got a call from the hospital saying she needed to go to an intensive care unit. There, Brusseau started out FaceTiming with her husband every day with the help of her nurses. Our family doctor did a test and that one was positive and he strongly urged her to be taken to the hospital and I took her to Orange Park (Medical).” So, we both went and got tested,” her husband said. “About the third week of school, she started feeling sick. But a few weeks into the school year, she became ill. Her husband said that Brusseau came home one day and changed her mind, announcing she would retire in December. “She said, ‘If you’re going to go one more year, I am going to go one more year.’" “She said, ‘No, I want to go one more year,’” her husband told News4Jax. When the pandemic hit, Brusseau had to decide whether to keep her job.
In recent years, she carried students with special needs to class and back home five days a week.īrusseau spent an even longer time - 41 years - by her husband Bill’s side. – Gail Brusseau, 66, spent 26 years driving children to school in Clay County.
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