A University Medical Center employee died over the weekend, just days after learning her son, an Army specialist, was killed in Iraq.
Karen Unruh-Wahrer, a respiratory therapist supervisor at UMC, found out her son, 25-year-old Robert Oliver Unruh, was killed by enemy fire outside of Baghdad Sept. 25.
After seeing her son's body Saturday morning, 45-year-old Unruh-Wahrer collapsed in her kitchen that night, according to the Associated Press.
Her husband, Dennis Wahrer, also a respiratory therapist, and other family members tried to perform CPR on her but were unsuccessful.
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