LimerickThe ashes of an Irish woman who died from injuries sustained in a car crash in the US two years ago have been brought home to her native Limerick for burial.
Nicole Ryan Graham (29), a mother of three from Moyross and Meelick, died in a rehabilitation clinic in Kansas on June 6th. She had been there for two years after the car in which she was a passenger crashed into a wall on February 8th, 2010.
The “bubbly and fun-loving” court clerk had been in a coma and needed full-time care.
Six weeks before the crash, Ms Graham lost her job and could not afford health insurance. Her family – who moved to America when Ms Graham was nine – paid the €1 million medical bill by holding charity events, some of them in Limerick and Clare.
Half of Ms Graham’s ashes have been buried in Kansas and the rest are now in Mount St Lawrence Cemetery.