STATESVILLE, N.C. — A business in Drexel is trying to raise money for two children after their mother died in a car crash on Interstate 77 near Statesville last week.
Nicky Farrow was killed after her car hit several trees last Wednesday about 10 miles north of Statesville.
Channel 9 has been asking for more details, but the North Carolina State Highway Patrol still isn’t sure why Farrow went off the interstate. Investigators say she wasn’t speeding or impaired.
Family members and friends told Channel 9’s Dave Faherty she worked long hours and had been at work prior to the wreck here.
In Drexel, Skyler Harlow showed us the growing memorial outside Farrow’s apartment, where folks have left messages and photos of the 30-year-old.
Harlow says she was in disbelief after learning that Farrow died.
“She never met a stranger. From the first time she moved over here, she talked to me like we were best friends, like she had known me forever,” Harlow said.
Since the crash, Harlow has started a raffle involving her business, The Cupcake Factory in Drexel. She plans on making cakes and cupcakes and then raffling them off, sending 100% of the proceeds to Farrow’s two children.
“They’re not understanding that she’s gone. They keep asking to call her, they want to talk to her, and it’s that trauma of being so little and not knowing why mom’s not coming home,” Harlow said.
Anna Kaylor grew up with Farrow in the Newton area, and she described her cousin as a “bubbly person with a bubbly personality.” Kaylor said she’s thankful for Harlow’s efforts and for anyone else who wants to help her family.
“Anyone thinking about donating to Nicky and her family, all I have to say is thank you. It was not supposed to be her, not now, not this way,” Kaylor said.
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