Carcrash deaths leave closeknit family reeling Houma Courier

Houma Today Daily Comet Big Fun on the Bayou Register Login Subscribe Place an Ad Site Web Search Web Search powered by YAHOO Search Home News Sports Entertainment Living Opinion Obituaries Jobs Cars Classifieds Local Business Crime State Nation World Elections Data Search Multimedia Weather News Home News Enlarge Text Email Email Print Comments Share You must fill in all fields what i am doing now. WITH PHOTO NO PHOTO DIGG FACEBOOK YAHOO NEWSVINE DEL.ICIO.US Car crash deaths leave close knit family reeling Raymond Legendre Staff Writer Published Monday May at p.m. Last Modified Monday May at p.m. Bryan Jr. left and Stacie Graham click to enlarge Dawn Graham LAROSE Hours before the calendar turned to Mother s Day Dawn Graham s last act as a mother was to protect the children she loved. Seeing the headlights of a minivan heading straight for the car she drove with three children on board the year old steered for the highway s shoulder. But the minivan headed there too. Graham! and two of her children year old Stacie and year old Bryan Jr. were killed upon impact in the crash on La. near the T Bois Bridge. Her year old daughter Audrey remains in critical but stable condition at University Hospital in New Orleans. Graham s mother Glenda Rousse of Galliano said her daughter would have been heartbroken had she lived. As much as I miss her and I am going to miss her Graham s mother said words frequently interrupted by sobs. I don t think she would have been able to survive knowing two of her kids were dead. Rousse said she is confident Audrey her surviving granddaughter will make a full recovery. State Police said the Honda Odyssey minivan s driver year old Binh Pham of Larose told them she fell asleep behind the wheel. The collision s force left the car s front end bent on a degree angle with its front tires. The car s passenger side door was lodged in the van s front end which also suffered heavy damage. Graham wore her seat belt. None of her child! ren did however. It s unlikely a seat belt would have saved the lives of anyone in the front seat Dardar said but it could have potentially saved the year old. Dardar added his heart goes out to Graham s family. It s the ultimate worst call you possibly can get he said. I just couldn t imagine. Binh Pham told State Police she was en route to her family s East nd Street home. Her father mother and younger brother were in the van with her. She had consumed an energy drink shortly before the crash. Pham and her parents were too distraught to discuss the wreck. Her sister Nina Tran spoke on her behalf. She said Pham finished her last exam Saturday morning thus ending her second semester at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The South Lafourche High School honors graduate plans to major in family pediatrics. At various times as Tran talked about her sister she reached her fingers underneath her sunglasses to wipe away tears. She spoke of great sorrow for the Graham family and also expressed hope that people might understand the wreck was an! accident. She has such a bright future Tran said of her sister. I know this will take a heavy toll. Graham s father Glen Rousse said he is disturbed because the apparently over tired Pham was driving even though her parents were in the car. Why weren t they driving if she was tired he said. For Dawn Graham Saturday began as a routine day of mother s chores. She worked with Audrey an eighth grader at Larose Cut Off Middle School on a school project prior to their fateful drive to Lockport. She was taking Audrey to a friend s house about p.m. for a sleepover when the crash occurred. Plans called for a return to Larose and dinner at the La Casa del Sol restaurant with the two youngest children and their grandparents. A Mother s Day dinner was planned at Rousse s home for Sunday. Instead the grieving grandmother found herself visiting Audrey at the hospital in New Orleans. Rousse said Graham raised the children alone for the past five years after divorcing Bryan Graham Sr. her! husband of years. He now lives in West Virginia and they would have visited him in July. My daughter loved her kids. She would do anything for them Graham s father said. Anything for her children included quitting her job at McDonald s in Cut Off earlier this year so she could spend more time with her daughter Stacie a third grader at Cut Off Elementary whom Rousse described as autistic. The children also spent a good bit of time in Galliano with their grandparents. Their grandfather kept soft drinks for them in an outside cooler and sweets inside on top of the refrigerator. He described Audrey an enthusiast for vampire books as outgoing and smart and Bryan Jr. a second grader at Cut Off Elementary School as a go getter. His wife recalled Stacie s tendency to tremble when she got excited as she did when she told her grandmother she d see her at the restaurant. Their life ended before it started the children s grandfather said. I will never forget them. I will never forget this day. Aftershocks reached beyond the homes of the two families. Som! e of Graham s former co workers at McDonald s broke into tears at the mere mention of her name Sunday afternoon. Co workers Veronda Cheramie and Loritta Dufrene said they had second thoughts about coming to work after learning of the deaths. They recalled Graham s cheerful attitude her love for her children and her frequent visits to the drive through window to stop and chat. Graham worked for more than a year at the McDonald s mostly working the drive through. She would do anything for her kids Graham s former co worker Veronda Cheramie said adding she was a good friend and listener. She was a very nice person very kindhearted Dufrene said. 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