Jun 29, 2009 11:33 am US/Eastern
Friends Remember Mother, Daughter Killed By Tree
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―
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Two days after a tree falls on a minivan killing a mother and her 7-year-old daughter, friends and family are remembering them.
CBS
The mourning continues today after a tree falls on a minivan killing a mother and her 7-year-old daughter.
The accident happened Friday evening in Bethesda.
Gigi Barnett reports the mother was an associate professor at Baltimore's Loyola College.
Minutes after a sudden rain storm blew a heavy tree branch on top of a minivan Friday afternoon, other drivers and neighbors tried to help the passengers inside.
Help was too late for 40-year-old Dr. Kelly Murray, an associate professor at Loyola College, and her 7-year-old daughter Sloane.
"We pulled them out and there was one in the passenger back seat, and her sister was dead on top of her," said a witness.
It is a freak accident that family and friends are still trying to understand.
"This is really tough for everybody," said Richard Green, Murray's neighbor.
The accident happened near East West Highway in Montgomery County, less than a mile away from Murray's home.
She was returning from a swim lesson with a minivan filled with seven children, five of her own and two family friends.
Richard Greene is Murray's neighbor.
"The thing about Kelly is that she works, she has children and she always finds time for her friends," said Greene.
A colleague of Murray's expressed the grief that has now reached Loyola College in Baltimore.
"She was the kind of person, where, if you were at a meeting you would want to sit next to her, cause she was fun," said Dr. Robert Wicks, a fellow Loyola College professor.
Wicks worked with Murray in the pastoral counseling department at Loyola College.
He says the campus will be different without her.
"She also recognized that faculty sometimes could take themselves too seriously. With humor she would cut through the nonsense and we were clear about what we were dealing with," Wicks adds.
Murray was also a licensed psychologist and was planning a summer workshop for young girls in D.C.
Though the storm damage is considered the primary cause, the cause of the accident is still being investigated by Montgomery County authorities.
Murray was also a licensed psychologist. She was planning a summer workshop for young girls in D.C.
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