Following doctors' prognosis that her husband Lloyd Curtis had only three months left to live, 72-year-old Lillian Curtis, along with her daughter, picked him up from the hospital. Tragically, as they pulled into a Denny's parking lot, a powerful gust of wind caused the Denny's sign to shatter and fall onto their car, crushing Lillian beneath it.
The 72-year-old Kentucky grandmother who was killed by a falling Denny's sign had just picked up her dying husband from the hospital when tragedy struck. Lillian Mae Curtis, her husband Lloyd Eugene Curtis Sr., 77, and their daughter Mary Graham, 58, were believed to be stopping for food on Thursday afternoon when the 2,600lb sign fell on their car amid 50 mph gusts in Elizabethtown.
Lillian, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, was immediately crushed by the falling sign. The grandmother was trapped in the vehicle and had to be extracted from the vehicle by emergency workers. Her granddaughter, Amy Nichols, told WDRB News her head wound had been 'catastrophic' and 'inoperable.'
Howard told KVUE that her grandmother's death had been 'instantaneous and that there was no way her body could have felt any pain. The family had just picked up Lloyd from the UofL Hospital, where he had been recovering from heart surgery. The grandfather was in hospice and given just three months to live by doctors, Lillian and Lloyd's grandchildren said they were dumbfounded by the tragedy that robbed their grandparents of the little time they had left together.
'It's not something you can truly wrap your mind around,' Mary Howard, Graham's daughter, told the outlet. 'I don't know that the shock has worn off - or the fact that we're going to go home and life is going to continue without her.'
Curtis, 77, died in hospital on 23 January, four days after his wife of 50 years Lillian Mae Curtis suffered catastrophic head injuries when the giant sign fell on their car
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