Meanwhile the small town is mourning the loss of a woman who had already defied the odds four times by beating cancer – only to have her incredible fight for life tragically ended by bullets fired into her own home by a stranger she never even met.
“She was the most selfless mom that anyone could ask for. She kind of devoted her whole life to us kids, so I’ll be forever grateful for everything that she did for us,” Ashley said, adding her mother raised all four children on her own.
‘Cruel joke’
“My mom was a single mom of 4 of us kids. She was a four-time breast cancer survivor,” Ashley wrote in a statement shared with 9News. “It feels like a cruel joke that she was taken from us in such a senseless and violent way, when she did nothing but fight for her life since she was 29-years-old. She never once complained about her treatments in those 20 years. She was the most selfless mom and did everything for us kids. Her resiliency is something that I have always admired and is something that I hope to carry on in her memory.”
As Berthoud gathered to honor James’ life on May 14, they didn’t just remember the tragedy that took her away – they remembered the fierce love she had for her children, the battles she fought and won, and the light she brought to everyone around her.
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