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Beaver Falls drum major Candice Jones, center, reacts as her father, Col. Loren Duwel, right, surprises her next to her mother, Mary Harris-Jones, during senior night before her team takes on New Brighton, Friday, Oct 2, 2020, at Geneva College in Beaver Falls. Jones, originally deployed to Afghanistan, contracted COVID-19 and has been recovering at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He was able to leave the facility for a day to see his daughter, whom she hasn’t seen in months. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)