Best Friends Die An Hour Apart After Crash: ‘They Were Special’

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO-TV) — It’s conscionable not the mode they were expected to go. That’s what the household of 2 spirited champion friends is saying. Beth Wollerman, 85, and Cecelia Timm, 89, were killed successful a car clang past week successful Hopkins. Police accidental they are inactive investigating, but person reports that an erratic operator ran a reddish airy and deed the car the women were riding in.

Eden Wollerman Rancaño, Beth’s daughter, acceptable up a roadside vigil astatine the Intersection of Shady Oak and Excelsior Boulevard to retrieve the women. The St. Paul autochthonal was a devoted teacher to the proceeding impaired, and a arrogant parent and grandmother.

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Beth and her hubby yet retired to The Glenn successful Hopkins. When Beth moved there, she met a caller champion friend, a pistillate named Cecilia. The brace bonded implicit religion and fun.

“The Timms were joined for 70 years, 70 years. And my parents were joined for 61 years,” Eden said. “And some of the ladies were talkers, social. And some of the men were, you know, quiet, subdued [laughs]. And they conscionable loved to person meal together.”

The women went for a thrust to bargain manus pick past week. Cecilia’s hubby was driving. Police accidental it appears different operator ran a reddish light.

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The mishap happened by Cross of Glory Baptist Church. Pastor Mark Ostlie and an off-duty medic rushed to help, and clasp vigil. “I didn’t cognize astir them, but we conscionable wanted to commune implicit them and inquire for God’s favour successful the moment,” Ostlie said.

Eden says Ostlie’s beingness astatine the country was greatly appreciated.

“Since my ma was truthful spiritual and truthful was similar Cecilia, it made maine precise blessed that, you know, they were surrounded by supplication erstwhile this happened,” Beth said.

The brace lived successful the infirmary for 2 much days. “They were similar champion friends, and they some went wrong an hr of each other,” Eden said. “Their husbands are the ones that are near to prime up the pieces.”

And that’s what Eden says she volition do, too, arsenic they grant 2 agelong lives that were chopped short. “They were special. They did person a batch to offer, and I don’t privation them to beryllium forgotten,” she said.

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Hopkins constabulary accidental they are moving this investigation, and region oregon metropolis attorneys volition determine if they volition complaint the operator who deed the women.