Maria Linda Villanueva Sun thought she had the flu. She died of covid-19.

Maria Linda Villanueva Sun was, at various times in her life, a restaurateur, interior designer, accountant, stay-at-home mom and Army wife. It was the last of these roles that brought the longtime San Francisco Bay-area resident to Newport News, Va., where her husband had recently been transferred to Fort Eustis.

The couple bought a house in October and were still in the process of moving some items from the West Coast to the East when Sun, 61, died of covid-19 on March 25.