Woman, 42, killed in car crash hours after funeral for her husband who died of cancer

A 42-year-old Wisconsin woman was killed in a car crash five hours after burying  her husband.

Sara Nowak had just attended the funeral for her husband, Louis Nowak, when she was killed in a single-vehicle crash Saturday night on State Highway 106 near Calkins Road in Palmyra.

A preliminary investigation found that the driver lost control of the vehicle, which then entered a ditch and overturned. One occupant was ejected from the vehicle, but both died at the scene, Jefferson County Sheriff Paul Milbrath told People. 

Louis Nowak, who died on March 19 of cancer, had been married to Sara for six years, and shared six children together, CBS 58 reported.

 ‘I don’t think she could be without him,’ Sara’s grieving mother Patricia Cartwright told the news outlet, ‘So, she is with him.’

Sara Nowak was killed in a car crash after her husband, Louis Nowak’s funeral on Saturday 

The couple shared six children together between them 

‘I don’t think she could be without him,’ Sara’s grieving mother Patricia Cartwright told the news outlet, ‘So, she is with him’

Her mother added, ‘We want everyone to remember her as being full of life.’

Sara’s father, Randal Cartwright, was shattered by the news of his daughter’s sudden and tragic death.

‘It’s really hard because you get done and then five and half hours later, you get a call saying that your daughter was in an accident,’ he said.

Sara’s parents said the past six months had been harrowing for their daughter, who cared for her husband, as he was battling the disease. 

‘He fought, he fought really hard,’ Cartwright said about his son-in-law Louis.

He described his daughter as a positive person. 

 ‘Whenever there was something that somebody needed,’ Cartwright said his daughter would say, ‘Don’t worry we got this.’

When Sara’s husband was first diagnosed with cancer in February 2022, her friend Kathy Palmer created a GoFundMe to help raise funds for him. 

Sara had created a GoFundMe to help raise money for her husband who was diagnosed with cancer in Feburary 2022

Sara cared for her husband Louis until he lost his battle with cancer on March 19

A GoFundMe was created by family friend, Cindy Krey, to help the grieving family with their unimaginable loss 

After Sara’s sudden death, Cindy Krey, a family friend created a GoFundMe, to help the grieving family with funeral expenses and living costs.

 ‘Sara went to visit Louis in heaven after his funeral,’ Krey wrote.

‘Please help them even if its only a couple extra dollars that you have,’ she said. ‘They just lost their grandpa a couple weeks ago so they have a lot of healing to do.’

She added: ‘They need all the help they can get during this horrific time.’

As of Friday afternoon nearly $11,400 was raised towards their goal of $25,000. 

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