'Yesterday, we saw her doing her job as she's done faithfully every single day and today she's not here,' the pastor of the victim's church told ABC13.
Karen Keagan was an active member of the Chapelwood United Methodist Church and was known to dote on her college-aged daughters whom she was so proud.A family and church community are remembering a mother who was killed after an 84-year-old driver is said to haveand slammed into a United States Postal Service office on Wednesday in southwest Houston.
"The suddenness of this," Josef Klam, Chapelwood's executive pastor, said. "Yesterday, we saw her doing her job as she's done faithfully every single day and today she's not here. There is a rawness about that." "She loved her daughters more than anything and was so proud of them," Klam said. "She spent more time talking about her daughters than anyone else."
Surveillance footage shows the older woman pulling into an accessible parking in the 2900 block of Rogerdale Road. She was going about 3 mph, and then the car was seen quickly accelerating and crashing into the building, according to the DA's office.
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