The Defranceschi Archive
2021

Jeanette "Nita" Riekstins (Lerena)

One person. South Africa. Everything this archive holds for this individual, kept apart from everyone else who shares the name.

Name
Jeanette "Nita" Riekstins (Lerena)
Years
2021
Place
South Africa
Line
abroad
Found in
Biography

The family

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What the archive knows

Called Nita. Cheryl's elder sister, and the «Matriarch of our tribe» of the Corona poems. Died Sunday 6 June 2021, of Covid — the date fixed by her sister's gratitude journal («that Nita did not suffer — her death came quick») and confirmed by the elegy's own opening, «early hours Sunday morning». Her memorial service was held under pandemic restrictions later that month. Married Dainis Riekstins. Four children; by the poem's reckoning the family ran to thirteen.

3 other people in this archive carry this name. They are different individuals and are not this person. See the name index →