October 8, 2004

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    Mother collapses, dies days after son killed in Iraq



    Associated Press
    Oct. 5, 2004 06:50 AM


    TUCSON -A 45-year-old Tucson woman collapsed and died in her home days after learning her son, an Army specialist, was killed in Iraq. Friends of Karen Unruh-Wahrer said she couldn’t stop crying over losing her 25-year-old son, Army Spc. Robert Oliver Unruh, who was killed by enemy fire near Baghdad on Sept. 25.

     

    After seeing her son’s body Saturday morning, Unruh-Wahrer collapsed that night in her kitchen.

     

    Unruh-Wahrer’s body will accompany her son’s in the procession to the Sierra Vista cemetery but plans for her burial haven’t been finalized.”

     

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