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NJ Sisters, Flood Victims Lose Both Parents After Cancer Battles
Support is on the rise for two sisters from New Jersey who are coping with their parents’ deaths after losing their home to a flood.
Longtime Lambertville residents Carly and Maddison Leary lost their mother, Rebecca Leary, from a pulmonary embolism that caused cardiac arrest on Nov. 19 after going through a difficult battle with cancer — hardly three years after the death of their father, William Leary, from cancer on May 2, 2018.
Carly, a 23-year-old nursing student, is now raising 13-year-old Maddison with her fiancé, Billy Osmun, according to a GoFundMe launched for the family’s expens…
