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Join Telegram ChannelAn amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among the 24 deaths in the fires raging around Los Angeles. The father was found at his son’s bedside.One victim told a relative that he did not want to evacuate. He died trying to fight the blaze that consumed his home of more than 50 years.Another victim, an 85-year-old woman, refused to leave her home as the fast-moving Palisades Fire approached, preferring instead to stay behind with her beloved pets. A former child star from Australia also was among those who died, as well as a Malibu resident and surfer who was called a “magnet for people.”Eight of the 24 deaths appear related to the Palisades Fire near the Southern California coast, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. Another 16 deaths have been attributed to the Eaton Fire, which raged east of Los Angeles.The complete death toll won’t be clear until it’s safe for investigators to enter neighborhoods where there are downed power lines, gas leaks and other hazards, according to authorities.Here’s what we know about the victims:Annette RossilliAnnette Rossilli, 85, insisted on staying in her Pacific Palisades home with her dog Greetly, her canary Pepper, her two parrots and her turtle, according to Luxe Homecare, the company that provided in-home care for her three days a week.The Palisades Fire, the largest of several blazes, started Tuesday morning. Rossilli was encouraged to leave on Tuesday afternoon.A caregiver later offered to pick Rossilli up even though it was her day off, Fay Vahdani, Luxe Homecare president, said Friday. Neighbors tried to convince her to evacuate but Rossilli refused to leave.On Wednesday, firefighters found Rossilli’s body in her car, according to Vahdani and relatives of the victim.Rossilli is survived by a daughter and a son. She ran a plumbing business in Pacific Palisades for many years with her late husband. She continued to live in the same home after his passing.She was a kind, friendly and grateful person who had many friends in the community and will be deeply missed, according to Luxe Homecare.Anthony and Justin MitchellAnthony Mitchell, an amputee who used a wheelchair, last spoke to his daughter, Hajime White, who lives in Arkansas, on Wednesday morning, she told the Washington Post.He told his daughter he planned to evacuate his home in Altadena, a neighborhood north of Pasadena, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.Mitchell and his adult son Justin, who had cerebral palsy, lived together, White told the newspaper.They never evacuated: White said authorities told her Mitchell’s body was found by the bed of his son.”He was not going to leave his son behind. No matter what,” White told the Post. “It’s very hard. It’s like a ton of bricks just fell on me.”Erliene KelleyErliene Kelley chose not to evacuate on Tuesday night with her granddaughter and her family. She wanted to stay in the Altadena home where she’d lived for more than 40 years.”It’s in God’s hands,” Kelley told family members, according to her granddaughter, Briana Navarro.Navarro wrote in a GoFundMe post that the family was notified on Friday that Kelley had perished in the Eaton Fire.”We made the choice to evacuate on Tuesday night. However, my grandmother decided she wanted to stay,” wrote Navarro. She later asked her father to check on Kelley, who again refused to evacuate.Navarro’s father returned to the house on Wednesday and found it had been destroyed in the fire.Navarro, her husband and their two children lived with Kelley. They lost everything in the fire, according to the post.Victor ShawVictor Shaw, 66, decided to try to fight the raging Eaton blaze with a garden hose this week rather than evacuate his longtime family home, according to KTLA.The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has confirmed his death, noting he died at his home from smoke inhalation and thermal injuries.Shaw lived with his younger sister, Shari Shaw, who told KTLA the intensity of the approaching fire forced her to evacuate Tuesday night but that her brother insisted on staying.Rodney NickersonIn one of his final phone calls, as the Eaton Fire approached his Altadena home, Rodney Nickerson said, “Son, the winds are picking up really, really bad.”The son, Eric Nickerson, remembers every word of that last conversation with his father. They were extremely close and spoke every day.”It was a normal conversation. Like most mornings,” Eric Nickerson told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Friday.The younger Nickerson recalled not being able to reach his father later that Tuesday, nor the following morning.After other family members and friends learned of Rodney’s death, they struggled to break the news to his son.”They didn’t know what to tell me,” Eric Nickerson said. “They didn’t really know what words to tell me because of the situation.”The close-knit, working class neighborhood where Rodney Nickerson lived for more than 50 years – and where his son grew up – has been virtually destroyed by fire.”It’s devastated,” Eric Nickerson lamented. “It looks like a movie set.”Rory Callum SykesA former child star from Australia died when the Los Angeles wildfires ripped through his family’s Malibu estate in California earlier this week, according to his mother.Rory Callum Sykes was at the family’s 17-acre Mount Malibu TV Studios estate, where he had his own cottage, when it burned down during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 8, his mother Shelley Sykes wrote on X Thursday.Shelley Sykes described her son, who appeared on the 1998 British TV series Kiddy Kapers, as “beautiful” and “wonderful” and said she was “totally heartbroken” by his death.She said she had tried to put out the wildfire cinders on her property’s roof using a hose but couldn’t because the water wasn’t working.”He said, ‘Mom, leave me,’ and no mom can leave their kid. And I’ve got a broken arm, I couldn’t lift him, I couldn’t move him,” Sykes told Australia’s 10 News First.Her son, 32, was born blind with cerebral palsy and had become famous for his speeches on overcoming disability. He was the co-founder of Happy Charity, which, according to its site, offers “Hope, Happiness & Health to those that are Hurting.”On his website, Sykes described himself as a professional speaker and consultant for many companies including the Tony Robbins Foundation and the Cerebral Palsy Alliance.”He overcame so much with surgeries and therapies to regain his sight and to be able to learn to walk. Despite the pain, he still enthused about traveling the world with me from Africa to Antarctica,” Shelley Sykes wrote on X.Randall “Randy” MiodRandall “Randy” Miod, 55, died in the place he loved most: his home.That’s according to his mother, Carol Smith, who said Miod lived in the Malibu beach house for decades.Detectives found human remains in Miod’s home, Smith said, telling CNN all his roommates have been accounted for.”(His home) was his prized possession. That’s the one and only house he ever owned,” Smith said. “He just felt so blessed to be able to live in Malibu. That was his dream come true because he’d been surfing since he was a teenager.”About 30 years ago, Miod rented a studio apartment attached to the house. After 13 years, the owner offered to sell the house for a discounted price – an opportunity Miod jumped on.From there, the house on Pacific Coast Highway became locally known as “the Crab Shack,” Smith said. Miod had an open-door policy in which friends were constantly coming and going from the red barn-style home built in 1924, she said.”He was just kind of a magnet for people. And people just loved him, and he loved people. He was a very kind person,” Smith said. “There was always a party. Wherever Randy went, there was a party.”Miod was determined to protect his beloved house.When they talked on the phone Tuesday, he told Smith he had a garden hose ready to go. She believed he didn’t know how big the flames were going to get.”He’d been through so many of these fires and made it through unscathed. I think he thought he could do it again,” Smith said. “Now that I’m realizing how many memories he had in that home, I can understand why he didn’t want to leave.”Miod, who lived in California all his life, spent most of the last few decades managing restaurants and surfing.”He used to cut class in high school to go surfing. I can remember one time I had to hide his surfboard,” Smith laughed. “I said, ‘You are supposed to be in the school. You’re not supposed to be at the beach.'”She said the last year was a tough one for Miod, as he lost his restaurant job, broke a finger and had to say goodbye to his cat of many years. However, Smith said he always kept a positive outlook on life and searched for the silver lining despite the hardship. He even recently picked up a new kitten.”He was unique… I’ve never known another one like him,” Smith said.Charles MortimerThe Los Angeles County Medical Examiner identified Charles Mortimer as one of the victims of the Palisades Fire.Mortimer, 84, died at an area hospital on Jan. 8, the medical examiner’s office notes.The office lists his causes of death as acute myocardial infarction, effects of smoke inhalation, thermal injuries, and coronary artery atherosclerosis.Dalyce CurryThe remains of 95-year-old Dalyce Curry were discovered in the ruins of her Altadena home, CNN affiliate KABC reported Monday. The coroner confirmed the news to Curry’s family Sunday evening.CNN reached out to the LA County Medical Examiner for comment but did not receive an immediate response.Curry was reported missing after the Eaton Fire torched her home, which led to concerns for her safety, according to KABC.Dalyce Kelley, Curry’s granddaughter and part-time caregiver, had dropped her grandmother off late at night following a hospital visit. Unaware of the fire’s potential, Kelley returned to check on her grandmother after receiving alerts about power outages, KABC reported.When Kelley arrived at the scene, an officer informed her that the property was gone. She recalled the officer saying, “I’m sorry to inform you that your grandmother’s home has been completely destroyed,” as she approached the barricade.”It was total devastation,” Kelley told KABC. “Everything was gone except her blue Cadillac.”Known affectionately as “Momma D,” Curry had a vibrant presence and was part of Old Black Hollywood in the 1950s, appearing as an extra in classic films like “The Ten Commandments” and “Lady Sings the Blues,” according to KABC.Evelyn McClendonEvelyn McClendon last talked to her brother as flames from the Eaton Fire approached her Altadena neighborhood. She had been collecting her belongings to evacuate her home.“I felt that she was on her way out,” her brother Zaire Calvin told CNN’s Victor Blackwell on Saturday.Calvin said he was focused on getting his wife, his 1-year-old child, and his mother, who is disabled and in her 80s, out of the neighborhood. Their homes were next door to each other, he said, and McClendon’s house was right behind them.“As we were leaving, I glanced and I remember seeing her (Evelyn’s) car still parked out in front of the house,” Calvin said.At that moment, Calvin said he went up to his sister’s house and yelled, “we gotta get out, we gotta go now,” and then raced back down the driveway to help his mother.“It looked like the scene out of a volcano movie with the winds gushing and the fire everywhere. It was rough,” Calvin said.When he returned the next day, the three homes were destroyed and McClendon’s car was still in front of her house, he said.Calvin called for a wellness check from authorities, but they did not find her. Calvin said a cousin came to help search for his sister and found her remains in her bedroom.Arthur SimoneauArthur Simoneau, “who made a strong impression on everybody he met,” died trying to protect his home when a wildfire broke out last week in Pacific Palisades, according to a GoFundMe set up by his family.He was an “unbelievably kind person to his core that had a magnetic pull” on people, his family said in a GoFundMe post.Simoneau, 69, was returning from a ski trip to California’s Mammoth Mountain when he learned of the evacuation orders, his longtime friend and fellow hang glider pilot, Steve Murrillo, told the Los Angeles Times.His family said Simoneau decided to stay at his Topanga home in the Santa Monica Mountains, which he built by hand, and which was a huge point of pride for him, the newspaper reported.The home was destroyed in the wildfire and Simoneau was found dead Thursday near the doorway, Murillo told the Times.CNN has reached out to Simoneau’s family for comment. The County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner said a fire victim, who has not been identified, was found on the same block where Simoneau lived.“Unfortunately, he died in the Palisades fire protecting his house doing what he did best,” according to the GoFundMe page. “Being a badass and doing something only he was brave enough (or crazy enough) to do.”Simoneau, who was a hang glider pilot for four decades, was soft-spoken and quirky, the Times reported.“He was a denizen of Topanga. He fit in good,” Malury Silberman, a friend who met him through the Sylmar Hang Gliding Association told the Times. “Kind of a grown-up hippie — never a harsh word out of the guy.”Kimberly WinieckiLongtime Altadena resident Kimberly Winiecki and close friend Jeannette McMahon had dinner the night of Jan. 6, the day before the Eaton Fire erupted.“What we didn’t know,” McMahon said, was that it would be “our farewell dinner.”Winiecki, 77, has been identified as a victim of the Los Angeles County wildfires, McMahon told CNN.McMahon said she tried to get Winiecki to evacuate the night after they had dinner. She could see the fire from her home, with winds picking up.“‘Kim, I need to come pick you up,’” McMahon told CNN she wrote in a text.“’I’m fine. I’m calm,’” she recalled her friend responding.McMahon said she couldn’t reach Winiecki after Jan. 7. She eventually spoke with Winiecki’s brother, who informed her officials had notified him of Winiecki’s death.“She was a very intelligent woman, just so sensitive and expressive. She was a writer and a delight to be with. It was such a joy to be around her,” McMahon said of her friend.For the last 20 years, McMahon and Winiecki met at least twice a week.“I had many parties; dinner parties and gatherings and Kim was a part of them. She didn’t like being in pictures, but she used to love taking photos of our gatherings and table settings and sending the photos to her sister. I’ll miss her insightfulness and wittiness,” McMahon said.
An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among the 24 deaths in the fires raging around Los Angeles. The father was found at his son’s bedside.
One victim told a relative that he did not want to evacuate. He died trying to fight the blaze that consumed his home of more than 50 years.
Another victim, an 85-year-old woman, refused to leave her home as the fast-moving Palisades Fire approached, preferring instead to stay behind with her beloved pets. A former child star from Australia also was among those who died, as well as a Malibu resident and surfer who was called a “magnet for people.”
Eight of the 24 deaths appear related to the Palisades Fire near the Southern California coast, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. Another 16 deaths have been attributed to the Eaton Fire, which raged east of Los Angeles.
The complete death toll won’t be clear until it’s safe for investigators to enter neighborhoods where there are downed power lines, gas leaks and other hazards, according to authorities.
Here’s what we know about the victims:
Annette Rossilli
Annette Rossilli, 85, insisted on staying in her Pacific Palisades home with her dog Greetly, her canary Pepper, her two parrots and her turtle, according to Luxe Homecare, the company that provided in-home care for her three days a week.
The Palisades Fire, the largest of several blazes, started Tuesday morning. Rossilli was encouraged to leave on Tuesday afternoon.
A caregiver later offered to pick Rossilli up even though it was her day off, Fay Vahdani, Luxe Homecare president, said Friday. Neighbors tried to convince her to evacuate but Rossilli refused to leave.
On Wednesday, firefighters found Rossilli’s body in her car, according to Vahdani and relatives of the victim.
Rossilli is survived by a daughter and a son. She ran a plumbing business in Pacific Palisades for many years with her late husband. She continued to live in the same home after his passing.
She was a kind, friendly and grateful person who had many friends in the community and will be deeply missed, according to Luxe Homecare.
Anthony and Justin Mitchell
Anthony Mitchell, an amputee who used a wheelchair, last spoke to his daughter, Hajime White, who lives in Arkansas, on Wednesday morning, she told the Washington Post.
He told his daughter he planned to evacuate his home in Altadena, a neighborhood north of Pasadena, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.
Mitchell and his adult son Justin, who had cerebral palsy, lived together, White told the newspaper.
They never evacuated: White said authorities told her Mitchell’s body was found by the bed of his son.
“He was not going to leave his son behind. No matter what,” White told the Post. “It’s very hard. It’s like a ton of bricks just fell on me.”
Erliene Kelley
Erliene Kelley chose not to evacuate on Tuesday night with her granddaughter and her family. She wanted to stay in the Altadena home where she’d lived for more than 40 years.
“It’s in God’s hands,” Kelley told family members, according to her granddaughter, Briana Navarro.
Navarro wrote in a GoFundMe post that the family was notified on Friday that Kelley had perished in the Eaton Fire.
“We made the choice to evacuate on Tuesday night. However, my grandmother decided she wanted to stay,” wrote Navarro. She later asked her father to check on Kelley, who again refused to evacuate.
Navarro’s father returned to the house on Wednesday and found it had been destroyed in the fire.
Navarro, her husband and their two children lived with Kelley. They lost everything in the fire, according to the post.
Victor Shaw
Victor Shaw, 66, decided to try to fight the raging Eaton blaze with a garden hose this week rather than evacuate his longtime family home, according to KTLA.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has confirmed his death, noting he died at his home from smoke inhalation and thermal injuries.
Shaw lived with his younger sister, Shari Shaw, who told KTLA the intensity of the approaching fire forced her to evacuate Tuesday night but that her brother insisted on staying.
Rodney Nickerson
In one of his final phone calls, as the Eaton Fire approached his Altadena home, Rodney Nickerson said, “Son, the winds are picking up really, really bad.”
The son, Eric Nickerson, remembers every word of that last conversation with his father. They were extremely close and spoke every day.
“It was a normal conversation. Like most mornings,” Eric Nickerson told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Friday.
The younger Nickerson recalled not being able to reach his father later that Tuesday, nor the following morning.
After other family members and friends learned of Rodney’s death, they struggled to break the news to his son.
“They didn’t know what to tell me,” Eric Nickerson said. “They didn’t really know what words to tell me because of the situation.”
The close-knit, working class neighborhood where Rodney Nickerson lived for more than 50 years – and where his son grew up – has been virtually destroyed by fire.
“It’s devastated,” Eric Nickerson lamented. “It looks like a movie set.”
Rory Callum Sykes
A former child star from Australia died when the Los Angeles wildfires ripped through his family’s Malibu estate in California earlier this week, according to his mother.
Rory Callum Sykes was at the family’s 17-acre Mount Malibu TV Studios estate, where he had his own cottage, when it burned down during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 8, his mother Shelley Sykes wrote on X Thursday.
Shelley Sykes described her son, who appeared on the 1998 British TV series Kiddy Kapers, as “beautiful” and “wonderful” and said she was “totally heartbroken” by his death.
She said she had tried to put out the wildfire cinders on her property’s roof using a hose but couldn’t because the water wasn’t working.
“He said, ‘Mom, leave me,’ and no mom can leave their kid. And I’ve got a broken arm, I couldn’t lift him, I couldn’t move him,” Sykes told Australia’s 10 News First.
Her son, 32, was born blind with cerebral palsy and had become famous for his speeches on overcoming disability. He was the co-founder of Happy Charity, which, according to its site, offers “Hope, Happiness & Health to those that are Hurting.”
On his website, Sykes described himself as a professional speaker and consultant for many companies including the Tony Robbins Foundation and the Cerebral Palsy Alliance.
“He overcame so much with surgeries and therapies to regain his sight and to be able to learn to walk. Despite the pain, he still enthused about traveling the world with me from Africa to Antarctica,” Shelley Sykes wrote on X.
Randall “Randy” Miod
Randall “Randy” Miod, 55, died in the place he loved most: his home.
That’s according to his mother, Carol Smith, who said Miod lived in the Malibu beach house for decades.
Detectives found human remains in Miod’s home, Smith said, telling CNN all his roommates have been accounted for.
“(His home) was his prized possession. That’s the one and only house he ever owned,” Smith said. “He just felt so blessed to be able to live in Malibu. That was his dream come true because he’d been surfing since he was a teenager.”
About 30 years ago, Miod rented a studio apartment attached to the house. After 13 years, the owner offered to sell the house for a discounted price – an opportunity Miod jumped on.
From there, the house on Pacific Coast Highway became locally known as “the Crab Shack,” Smith said. Miod had an open-door policy in which friends were constantly coming and going from the red barn-style home built in 1924, she said.
“He was just kind of a magnet for people. And people just loved him, and he loved people. He was a very kind person,” Smith said. “There was always a party. Wherever Randy went, there was a party.”
Miod was determined to protect his beloved house.
When they talked on the phone Tuesday, he told Smith he had a garden hose ready to go. She believed he didn’t know how big the flames were going to get.
“He’d been through so many of these fires and made it through unscathed. I think he thought he could do it again,” Smith said. “Now that I’m realizing how many memories he had in that home, I can understand why he didn’t want to leave.”
Miod, who lived in California all his life, spent most of the last few decades managing restaurants and surfing.
“He used to cut class in high school to go surfing. I can remember one time I had to hide his surfboard,” Smith laughed. “I said, ‘You are supposed to be in the school. You’re not supposed to be at the beach.'”
She said the last year was a tough one for Miod, as he lost his restaurant job, broke a finger and had to say goodbye to his cat of many years. However, Smith said he always kept a positive outlook on life and searched for the silver lining despite the hardship. He even recently picked up a new kitten.
“He was unique… I’ve never known another one like him,” Smith said.
Charles Mortimer
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner identified Charles Mortimer as one of the victims of the Palisades Fire.
Mortimer, 84, died at an area hospital on Jan. 8, the medical examiner’s office notes.
The office lists his causes of death as acute myocardial infarction, effects of smoke inhalation, thermal injuries, and coronary artery atherosclerosis.
Dalyce Curry
The remains of 95-year-old Dalyce Curry were discovered in the ruins of her Altadena home, CNN affiliate KABC reported Monday. The coroner confirmed the news to Curry’s family Sunday evening.
CNN reached out to the LA County Medical Examiner for comment but did not receive an immediate response.
Curry was reported missing after the Eaton Fire torched her home, which led to concerns for her safety, according to KABC.
Dalyce Kelley, Curry’s granddaughter and part-time caregiver, had dropped her grandmother off late at night following a hospital visit. Unaware of the fire’s potential, Kelley returned to check on her grandmother after receiving alerts about power outages, KABC reported.
When Kelley arrived at the scene, an officer informed her that the property was gone. She recalled the officer saying, “I’m sorry to inform you that your grandmother’s home has been completely destroyed,” as she approached the barricade.
“It was total devastation,” Kelley told KABC. “Everything was gone except her blue Cadillac.”
Known affectionately as “Momma D,” Curry had a vibrant presence and was part of Old Black Hollywood in the 1950s, appearing as an extra in classic films like “The Ten Commandments” and “Lady Sings the Blues,” according to KABC.
Evelyn McClendon
Evelyn McClendon last talked to her brother as flames from the Eaton Fire approached her Altadena neighborhood. She had been collecting her belongings to evacuate her home.
“I felt that she was on her way out,” her brother Zaire Calvin told CNN’s Victor Blackwell on Saturday.
Calvin said he was focused on getting his wife, his 1-year-old child, and his mother, who is disabled and in her 80s, out of the neighborhood. Their homes were next door to each other, he said, and McClendon’s house was right behind them.
“As we were leaving, I glanced and I remember seeing her (Evelyn’s) car still parked out in front of the house,” Calvin said.
At that moment, Calvin said he went up to his sister’s house and yelled, “we gotta get out, we gotta go now,” and then raced back down the driveway to help his mother.
“It looked like the scene out of a volcano movie with the winds gushing and the fire everywhere. It was rough,” Calvin said.
When he returned the next day, the three homes were destroyed and McClendon’s car was still in front of her house, he said.
Calvin called for a wellness check from authorities, but they did not find her. Calvin said a cousin came to help search for his sister and found her remains in her bedroom.
Arthur Simoneau
Arthur Simoneau, “who made a strong impression on everybody he met,” died trying to protect his home when a wildfire broke out last week in Pacific Palisades, according to a GoFundMe set up by his family.
He was an “unbelievably kind person to his core that had a magnetic pull” on people, his family said in a GoFundMe post.
Simoneau, 69, was returning from a ski trip to California’s Mammoth Mountain when he learned of the evacuation orders, his longtime friend and fellow hang glider pilot, Steve Murrillo, told the Los Angeles Times.
His family said Simoneau decided to stay at his Topanga home in the Santa Monica Mountains, which he built by hand, and which was a huge point of pride for him, the newspaper reported.
The home was destroyed in the wildfire and Simoneau was found dead Thursday near the doorway, Murillo told the Times.
CNN has reached out to Simoneau’s family for comment. The County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner said a fire victim, who has not been identified, was found on the same block where Simoneau lived.
“Unfortunately, he died in the Palisades fire protecting his house doing what he did best,” according to the GoFundMe page. “Being a badass and doing something only he was brave enough (or crazy enough) to do.”
Simoneau, who was a hang glider pilot for four decades, was soft-spoken and quirky, the Times reported.
“He was a denizen of Topanga. He fit in good,” Malury Silberman, a friend who met him through the Sylmar Hang Gliding Association told the Times. “Kind of a grown-up hippie — never a harsh word out of the guy.”
Kimberly Winiecki
Longtime Altadena resident Kimberly Winiecki and close friend Jeannette McMahon had dinner the night of Jan. 6, the day before the Eaton Fire erupted.
“What we didn’t know,” McMahon said, was that it would be “our farewell dinner.”
Winiecki, 77, has been identified as a victim of the Los Angeles County wildfires, McMahon told CNN.
McMahon said she tried to get Winiecki to evacuate the night after they had dinner. She could see the fire from her home, with winds picking up.
“‘Kim, I need to come pick you up,’” McMahon told CNN she wrote in a text.
“’I’m fine. I’m calm,’” she recalled her friend responding.
McMahon said she couldn’t reach Winiecki after Jan. 7. She eventually spoke with Winiecki’s brother, who informed her officials had notified him of Winiecki’s death.
“She was a very intelligent woman, just so sensitive and expressive. She was a writer and a delight to be with. It was such a joy to be around her,” McMahon said of her friend.
For the last 20 years, McMahon and Winiecki met at least twice a week.
“I had many parties; dinner parties and gatherings and Kim was a part of them. She didn’t like being in pictures, but she used to love taking photos of our gatherings and table settings and sending the photos to her sister. I’ll miss her insightfulness and wittiness,” McMahon said.
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