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staff had an honored tradition of cloaking a recently
he bleakest night was also one of
passed resident in a quilt, which Rizzio remembers
the longest.
Judith Rizzio was working an over doing. Then, hours later, yet another resident passed.
A second quilt was retrieved and laid over the body.
night shift, one of many in those intermi
Still later in the night, a third resident passed on.
nable weeks back then, at the new residence for
HIV/AI DS-infected people called Our House. She
Our House staff went searching for another quilt, or
remembers a night of high emotions at the height of anything to cover the body, but came up empty.
the Portland pandemic when the facility, packed to
“We had two, and all of us realized we didn’t
bursting with needy residents on a cold night, was
have another quilt,” Rizzio says, her voice choked
so short of supplies that it simply ran out of quilts.
with emotion. “And we all thought, this is insane.
Rizzio can look back on this with clearer eyes
This is just too much.”
today. After burying one of her best friends who
—Stephen Marc Beaudoin
died from AIDS-related
causes in 1979, she worked
for Our House from 1989 to
2006 as the focus “went from
helping people die to helping
pei >ple... understand
what
it means to live with HIV.”
She’s now in charge of vol
unteer resources at Cascade
AIDS Project, managing a
roster of more than 1,200
volunteers for the largest
H1V/AIDS service organiza
tion in the Northwest.
But as Our House’s direc
tor of volunteers and then
community relations man
ager in the toughest years of
the pandemic, Rizzio had a
front seat to the “incredible
brutal swell” of HIV infec
tions in Oregon through the
’80s and early ’90s, watching
mostly young gay men shrivel
up and die a short time after
contracting the disease. She
recalls 1993, when AIDS-
related deaths peaked, as “our
worst, most difficult year.”
That bleak and harrow
ing night she describes was
in 1993. Rizzio was staffing
Our House when one of the
Judith Rizzio recalls a grim night at Our House during the height
of AIDS.
residents passed. The facility
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