“Feisty old grandmother” Jennie Stejna, of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, contracted coronavirus earlier this month but has since made a full recovery.
They had thought they were about to lose their beloved relative and had called to say what they thought would be their last goodbyes.
The great-great-grandmother of three is a widow – her husband Teddy died in 1992 at the age of 82 – and she had told relatives she was ready to “go to heaven”.