STEPHENS CITY, Va. (AP) — Stephens City resident Kathy Foster, 53, has a deep connection to bringing comfort through song to those on the threshold of life.

In May 2016, her husband died of sepsis after anti-rejection medication he was taking for a kidney transplant caused damage to his stomach lining. Foster and her family sang to him as he was dying.

"That was the way we got through it," she said. "We got through it with singing."

Foster said it was after singing one of his favorite songs, "Give Them All to Jesus," that her husband died.

"It meant so much to me to be able to usher him into t...