Family of MMIWG advocate asks for prayers as she battles COVID-19 in intensive care – CBC

Oct 14, 2021

Bernice Catcheway has been ‘helping all her life, and this is the time where she needs us,’ says son

The family of a well-known Manitoba advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is asking for prayers as she battles COVID-19 in an intensive care unit.

Bernice Catcheway, 60, is the mother of Jennifer Catcheway, who disappeared in 2008 at the age of 18. Her parents have spent the past 13 years searching for her and bringing national attention to issues around missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Catcheway was admitted to the ICU at the Grace Hospital in Winnipeg on Wednesday morning. Her son says she’s in an induced coma and intubated on a ventilator.

“Keep my mom in your prayers. She really needs us right now. She really needs our help,” Willie Starr, 36, said in an interview with CBC.

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