Grieving husband asks community for help, hopes to return wife to Ghana

FLORENCE, Ky. (WXIX) – A Northern Kentucky man is asking for the community’s help to bring his wife home to Ghana for burial after she was struck and killed by a car while walking to work Friday evening.

Clement Essilfie is grieving the loss of his wife, Edith Obeng, who was hit by a car on Turfway Road in Florence shortly before 8 p.m. Friday.

Obeng, 53, was crossing the street when she was struck, according to police. Florence EMS transported her to St. Elizabeth Hospital, where she later died from her injuries…

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