AIDS Death and Chesterfield Mom's Pain 25 Years After
In honor of World AIDS Day, Pat Levy discusses her son’s death, her decade of activism and the state of AIDS today.
Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, a day to honor those who died of HIV/AIDS-related causes, to support those who live with the disease today and to encourage others to be tested for the virus. We here in the St. Louis regional Patch.com are honoring the day by telling the story of Pat and Mayer Levy and their son, Michael. For World AIDS Day events in the St. Louis area, check out the St. Louis Effort for AIDS list of activities. When Michael Levy was 7 years old, his parents bought him a piano from a Memphis church. It may be big and ugly, as his mother Pat describes it, and it may have cost far more than it’s worth to move it to their Chesterfield home, but he loved it. Today, the piano sits silent in Pat’s airy, wood-paneled basement, …
