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Springfield, MO
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Springfield, MO
Missouri State University employees are raising money for a memorial for a colleague who died of COVID-19 last year.
Jason Matthew Rhea, assistant director of facilities management for the university, died in October at 51.
The MSU Staff Senate has raised roughly $3,800 of a $5,000 goal to place a memorial to Rhea on the campus.
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