The coronavirus has claimed the lives of more than 100 people in southeastern Connecticut. Numbers from the state in mid-September showed 83 confirmed and 28 probable deaths in New London County. Many of the deaths were nursing home residents, which make up about 70% of coronavirus fatalities across the state.

The Day has written about some of those lost, putting faces to the numbers. Here are some of their stories.

Paul Brockett Sr., of East Lyme, got the news that he tested positive for COVID-19 shortly after he had finished rebuilding one of the diesel engines on the Mijoy 747, the last task to ready the charter boat for the 2020 fishing season.

Three weeks later, on April 29, he died. He was 79.

Brockett was an avid fisher for much of his life. He loved to talk about the times he was out tile fishing and swordfishing in the middle of the ocean, in the midst of a storm, stories that were "full of rich detail and always ended with wonder and gratefulness that they had survived," his obituary said.

Brockett was also a skilled machinist and a woodworker, crafting nearly all the fishing weights and jigs for his boat. He loved spending time with his dog, a Bichon named Little Cesar.

Warren B. Rogers Sr. of Uncasville celebrated Christmas morning 2019 the way he always did: videotaping his family members as they opened each package, then carefully staging the gifts on the living room couch for more recording.

On April 30, Rogers died of COVID-19 after being hospitalized and then sent to a nursing home to recover after contracting the virus. His family, due to coronavirus precautions, had to say goodbye to him via Zoom. He was 88.

Rogers was a United States Air Force veteran and retiree of Electric Boat, where he'd been a purchasing processor at the end of his 40-year career. He enjoyed a range of hobbies including history, astronomy, collecting coins and stamps and every play made by the UConn women's basketball team.

Thomas "Tommy" Bly of Quaker Hill died of COVID-19 on May 5, the day before his 88th birthday.

One of Bly's notable projects during his career as a wallpaper installer and painter was a map of the Whaling City that took up an entire wall at the New England Savings Bank in New London. He loved to paint pictures and give them to his family members and friends.

A veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, he had married his late wife, Gladys, at age 50. They enjoyed traveling together, and he took care of her after she developed Alzheimer's disease.

"One time I went over there, and he was cleaning her up, and I said, 'Man, they don't make men like this anymore,'" his niece, Millie Simon said during an interview.

Anthony C. Bailey, the writer whose 1971 book "In the Village" detailed life in Stonington Borough, where he and his wife lived in the 1960s, died May 13 of the coronavirus in Harwich, Essex, England. He was 87.

Prior to Bailey's death, plans had been underway in Stonington for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of "In the Village," which will now be both a celebration of Bailey's literary legacy and an occasion to look back on a half-century of life in the borough. "Unlike other big time writers who spent some time here, Tony was part of the community," Jones said, adding, "He was the best sustained writer of prose work in southeastern Connecticut in the last half of the 20th century," said Bailey's longtime friend and Noank resident Stephen Jones.

Bettye Beard of Mystic initially went to the hospital with chest pains and later found out she had COVID-19. She and her husband both contracted the virus and were asymptomatic.

She died May 17 at the age of 81.

Beard always talked about how she had a good life and "whatever happens, happens," and that was true in her final days, her daughter Marie Sebastian said in an interview.

"There was nothing left unsaid. Nothing left undone. She was very happy with her life," Sebastian said.

Beard, whose father was a pastor, was a longtime member of Shiloh Baptist Church in New London. She loved spending time with her family, who said she was a woman of her word and taught her kids to be the same way. She played games with her friends — "the ladies" — as her children called them, who would come over three times a week for game night.

Helen Hine of East Lyme was living at Bride Brook Health and Rehabilitation Center when she died May 21 about a month after contracting COVID-19. She was 99.

Her obituary described her as having "an irrepressible sense of humor," and her daughter, Pamela Hine, described how she was always putting things on her head — hats, bows at Christmastime. Oftentimes, she would pair them with an accent or a silly voice.

Hine, who worked as a nurse for many years, including 10 years at Connecticut Hospice when it was a new program, loved to travel and took trips with her children across the country and the world.

She climbed Mount Washington four times — at age 20, 40, 60 and 80 — traversing to the top by foot each time except the last, when she took The Mount Washington Cog Railway, her daughter Nancy Hine said.