‘Mommy, we love you’: Mom dies outside doors of daughter’s high school graduation

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Gray News) – A mom in North Carolina died while walking into her daughter’s high school graduation.

On May 23, Jean Byrd was walking through the parking lot at the Joel Coliseum in Winston-Salem to see her daughter, Meilean’s, high school graduation from Parkland High School.

However, she never made it inside and collapsed before making it to the door.

“As my sister was graduating high school, our mother is lying on the ground fighting for her life,” according to Byrd’s son Marquan (Don) Matthews on a GoFundMe…


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