After surviving cancer, crash takes husband

Her husband was 59. “It’s not fair. I didn’t have long enough with him.”

“All last summer was spent driving my husband to MD Anderson. He was diagnosed with head and neck cancer, so he had radiation and he suffered terribly. Two weeks after finding out he was cancer free, he died in a gyrocopter crash at the Anahuac airport.

“We always used to joke that we may be losing a summer, but we’ve got the rest of our lives. You know, beat this cancer and then move forward. But you just never know what’s going to happen.

“I have no family here, so I’m going to retire at the end of this year and move back to Washington state where my family is. I just found out that I’m going to be a grandmother. My son in the Navy is stationed in Washington, so I’ll be right there for the baby. I guess there’s always some sunlight through the gray clouds.”