After their 24-year-old daughter died alone in the Peace Corps in 2018, family warns others who prepare to volunteer amid pandemic
CHICAGO - On their daughter's gravestone are her birth date, the day she died and her service in the Peace Corps.
Below these is one word: "Extraordinary."
This is how her parents describe Bernice Heiderman, who died at age 24 in 2018 from undiagnosed malaria while serving in the Peace Corps.
Two years later, as the Peace Corps prepares to send volunteers back into the field amid a
