'She really instilled in us to just live each day to the fullest, be positive, love other people,' Karen Kennedy's daughter, Kelly Glenn, said.
"She really instilled in us to just live each day to the fullest, be positive, love other people," Karen Kennedy's daughter, Kelly Glenn, said.The family of 78-year-old Karen Kennedy told 9NEWS she was one of them. Kennedy died with family by her side on Sept. 16.
Kennedy is remembered as a woman that always celebrated family. Her other daughter, Laura Downie, captured a photo of Kennedy at her granddaughters homecoming parade just days before she died. "I had no idea the next time I would see her she would be like totally confused and barely know who I was," Downie said.
"And then they said we think she might have West Nile virus and brain inflammation as a result of it," she explained."This is a woman not even a week before, we were at lunches and parades and now they’re saying she wasn’t going to make it and so, I mean we had to make the toughest decision of our lives to take her off of life support," Downie added as she began to cry.
Karen was a cancer survivor. She also got to watch her grandchildren grow, her garage wall was covered with height markings over the last decades. Her absence may hurt but her family hopes, for others, it has meaning. "She was a nurse, she was very into healthcare," Downie said."So she would want people to know, let my story do something for others," Glenn added.
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