Travel ‘She needed the money’: Family grieves loss of flight attendant, 79, from COVID-19 March 4, 2021 Melissa Yeager, Arizona Republic Comments Off on ‘She needed the money’: Family grieves loss of flight attendant, 79, from COVID-19 The family of a 79-year-old American Airlines flight attendant who died of COVID-19 said she needed to work through the pandemic to make ends meet.