'She told us she wasn't coming back home again': Family mourns death of daughter killed in long weekend crash
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Lorna Ross didn't want to leave her family behind after spending five days with them in The Pas.
But as they said goodbye, she told her parents she felt she wasn't coming back home again.
Just hours later, Ross died after being injured in a head-on highway collision.
The 42-year-old was travelling home to Winnipeg in a minivan Monday afternoon on Highway 6, her wheelchair strapped to the front part of the vehicle.
RCMP believe an SUV going in the opposite direction crossed the centre line into the minivan's path. The vehicles crashed head-on near the northwestern shore of Lake Winnipeg.
Ross was rushed to a nursing station in Grand Rapids, but she later died.
She leaves behind twin sisters, a brother and her parents.
"She's gone, you're not gonna see her again," her father, Lorne Ross, said. "It's very difficult to think about that."
"We have to live on with the memories that she was a very, very happy person … she always had a big laugh."
Lorne Ross said her daughter lived with spastic cerebral palsy after being born with an oxygen deficiency. She was the third of four quadruplets and the family's youngest living daughter.
Lorna Ross was from Mosakahiken Cree Nation. After living in The Pas with her family she moved to Winnipeg, her father said, looking for a more accessible city to live as a wheelchair user, especially during the winter months.
She had an apartment, cared for two cats and worked for St. Amant. The non-profit organization supports Manitobans with developmental disabilities, autism and acquired brain injuries.
"She made it for herself, living on her own," Lorne Ross said. "Even though she was confined to the wheelchair, that never stopped her."
Every August, Lorna Ross travelled more than 500 kilometres north from Winnipeg to visit her family. It was her annual vacation, her father said, and this time, it was planned months in advance. She paid out of pocket to rent a van, and along with a driver and her nurse, they drove up to Lorne Ross' family home last Thursday.
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