Family heartbroken after fatal crash

A heartbreaking end to the Memorial Day Weekend, 24-year-old Kayla Pittman was killed in a car crash in Ocean Springs. Now the lives of those who loved her most will be forever changed.

“She was my life and it can be taken away so quick.” It’s something no grandmother should have to do: bury their grandchild, but it’s the harsh reality for Joanie Smith. “Unthinkable, something you just never think or think it will happen to you. It happens to everyone else, but it doesn’t happen to you.”

Kayla’s husband Chase Pittman was driving, Chase is currently in the ICU trauma unit in New Orleans. “They were inseparable. Now he said he doesn’t want to live without her.”

Kayla and Joanie both moved to Ocean Springs from Memphis in 2012 because they loved being on the Coast. Kayla had two young children, one seven year old boy and a four year old girl. With the rest of her family in Tennessee, Joanie wants to send her granddaughter home for her final resting place. “The majority of our family lives in Memphis, that’s where they all originated. I have got to get her back home where family is. I am here, but that is it and I’m all alone here now.”

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