Lisa Uzzle, a White/Caucasian woman, age 53, was known to friends and coworkers as steady, kind, and deeply rooted in southern Illinois. On September 6, 2014, she died in the Carbondale area, her name soon added to the rolls of those “lost to gun violence.” The simple memorial entries captured the stark facts: age 53, date of death September 6, 2014, and the place—Carbondale, Illinois—while family obituaries traced her beginnings to Harvey, Illinois, and laid out the contours of a life s
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