Taylor Swift donates £36,400 to mother of five whose husband died of coronavirus
Taylor Swift has come to the aid of another family affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, donating £36,400 (US$50,000) to a woman who lost her husband to coronavirus.On Tuesday (March 23), Swift and her mother, Andrea, jointly donated the total goal amount of a GoFundMe appeal for Vickie Quarles, a mother of five daughters who was widowed after her husband, Theodis Ray Quarles, died of coronavirus just one week before Christmas.Thanks to the lump sum donation from the Swifts, DeQuanda Smith, a close friend of the Quarles family who began the appeal, has now crowdsourced a total of £44,935 (US$61,700) at the time of writing.Describing Theodis’ death on the GoFundMe description, Smith wrote, “Theodis’ transition will forever leave a void on the