REMEMBERING THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO DIED FROM CORONAVIRUS

They were mothers and fathers, daughters and sons. Many were proud grandparents. All were loved, relatives say, and will be forever missed. As the number of deaths attributable to the coronavirus ticks upward, The Sun is working to chronicle those who have lost their lives in the Baltimore area.

These are some of those victims.

but I think the longer we were together, she grew to respect me and me with her. This was the way she lived her life at T. Rowe Price. So we became fast friends and were very fond of each other.”

Ms. Krug never married. (“She was a career woman,” Mr. Carter said.) But she was not lonely as she spent much of her free time traveling around the world to countries such as England, France, the Czech Republic, India, Thailand and China.

Even at an early age, Ms. Krug sought opportunities to immerse herself in culture, education and history.

“We didn’t go to the beach,” Mr. Carter said of his cousins’ trips. “We went to Colonial Williamsburg [in Virginia] or they’d take us to the symphony or they’d take us to a play. That’s a memory that the remaining nieces and I recall very vividly. We were very appreciative of that.”

Mrs. Grauel said when she helped Ms. Krug transition from her home in Baltimore to Broadmead, the pair went through several boxes of brochures, pamphlets and photos Ms. Krug had collected from her visits.

“She went to places that I had never even heard of,” Mrs. Grauel said. “Sometimes I wish my life was like hers.”

Mr. Carter said his cousin often gifted him and his wife with magazines from the British Historic Trust.

“She would give them to us and say, ‘Here. I’m finished with reading this, but you might like to see it,’ ” he said. “And she was always encouraging us to like the same sorts of things that she liked.”

Mr. Carter noted that his cousin’s travels contributed to her patronage of organizations such as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Ms. Krug’s death caught Mrs. Grauel by surprise.

“I talked to her by Skype about a month ago, and she was so upbeat,” Mrs. Grauel said. “She said, ‘I’ve been thinking about you so much,’ and I said the same to her. I said, ‘I’m going to get in there hopefully soon, and then we’ll see each other.’ Then it was on Wednesday [June 10] that I got a text that she had passed from Louise, her cousin, and my heart just fell. I walked around in a little bit of a daze all day until my husband got home, and then the tears just flowed. I could probably do it right now. I’m just so sorry. I definitely wanted to be there with her at the end.”

Ms. Krug was cremated, and a date for a memorial at Broadmead remains undetermined. In addition to Mr. Carter, Ms. Krug is survived by cousins Anne Carter Jacobson of Columbia, Missouri, Louise Carter Potter of Alexandria, Virginia, Katherine Carter of France, and Barbara Carter of Peaks Island, Maine.

—Edward Lee