2 Orphaned by Death of Sept. 11 Widow
The widow of a carpenter killed in the World Trade Center collapse has died of breast cancer, orphaning the couple’s two young sons.
Karen Diaz, 35, died Wednesday. Her husband, Matthew, 33, was killed Sept. 11. He had been installing tile in the 105th-floor offices of Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost more than 600 of its employees in the terrorist attack.
Karen Diaz’s mother, Florence Kneff, struggled with how to break the news to her grandsons Michael, 7, and Christopher, 4.
It wasn’t clear with whom the children would live. Diaz learned last year that she had terminal breast cancer.
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