Family Remembers Toddler After Fatal Hay Ride

Sunday would have been Zoe Montgomery's second birthday, but a hayride accident cut her life short last fall. The family remembered Zoe with a balloon release to celebrate her short life.

Sunday, March 29th 2009, 11:47 pm

By: News 9


By Jennifer Pierce, NEWS 9

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Sunday would have been Zoe Montgomery's second birthday, but a hayride accident cut her life short last fall. The family remembered Zoe with a balloon release to celebrate her short life.

Carrie Montgomery is decorating for what would have been her daughter's second birthday where the toddler now rests peacefully.

"If it's the last thing I can do for her, I want to make sure it looks really pretty so she can have a good birthday," Carrie Montgomery said.

So many reminders of the tiny life, even the chimes ringing in the wind bring back memories of Zoe.

"Whenever I feel the wind blow stronger, I feel like it's her and whenever the sun is shining bright, I feel like it's her looking down at me," Zoe's mother Carrie said.

For Carrie and the rest of her family, time has come to a stop since the tragic accident that took the 19-month-old child.

The Montgomery family was enjoying an outing at the Orr Family Farm last October when the tractor-pulled trailer they were riding backed over the little girl.

"It seems like an eternity since she's been gone, it's really hard to even focus every day," Carrie Montgomery said.

But the grieving mother does have family by her side. Even the community has surrounded Carrie and her husband with support as they try to make it through this difficult time.

"People we don't even know have called to give their condolences and to let us know they are thinking about us. It's just overwhelming the kindness that people have shown us since this has happened," Zoe's grandmother Barbara Menees said.

And it's that kindness that has given this family the strength to celebrate on Zoe's birthday, a celebration complete with balloons released toward the little angel that now keeps watch over her loving family.

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