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Strangers, moved by sudden death, leave flowers outside Winnipeg hair salon
Faith Barnett, 8, and her mom Sandra tape a bouquet of flowers with a handwritten note on the outside wall of the Ultracuts Hair Salon. (RUTH BONNEVILLE/WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) Photo Store
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Eight-year-old Faith Barnett didn’t know Kendall Wiebe.
But after 27-year-old Wiebe died due in a strange vehicle crash last Saturday at Crestview Shopping Centre, Barnett wanted to do something special.
So the grade three student went to a flower store and wrote a hand-written message, which she laid with a bouquet outside the Portage Avenue hair salon where Wiebe was an employee when she was struck and killed by a runaway Jeep Liberty.
Wiebe was taken off life support earlier this week, and by Wednesday afternoon, a cluster of bouquets were taped up outside the hair salon, which is now closed due to the crash.
Wiebe is the mother to a four-year-old girl, and was in a relationship with a man who had two other children.
"I just felt sorry for the family and how hard it would be for the four-year-old," said Barnett, who was with her mother as she delivered the bouquet. "So I just wanted to write a nice note and pick out (some) of the best flowers there."
The girl wasn’t the only stranger touched by Wiebe’s death. At Lacoste Garden Centre on St. Mary’s Road, hundreds of sunflowers were sold with proceeds going to a trust fund set up in Wiebe’s name at Assiniboine Credit Union.
Claudine Davidson, a translator, showed up to buy a set of potted flowers. She said she didn’t know Wiebe, but the death hit a nerve with her.
"You hear about freaky accidents like that and you say, well, it could be me, you just never know. This woman did not have a clue when she left her kids that morning that she would never see them again," said Davidson.
Wiebe’s friend, Lyndsey Johnston, 25, has been discharged from hospital and is recuperating from her injuries.
Police had no updates Wednesday on the cause of the crash, which remains under investigation.
No charges have been announced against the Jeep’s 32-year-old driver.
Gabrielle.giroday@freepress.mb.ca
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