A Cape Coral couple now has a place to go to remember their daughter who was killed in a car crash.
In October of 2016, Sandra and Doron Markowitz moved to Cape Coral from the east coast of Florida. Their 25-year-old daughter Paige Crowley-Murphy was supposed to move with them after she graduated from school a few months later. On December 29th, Sandra and Doron got a phone call from police saying her daughter was killed in a car crash.
"We didn't really have a lot of friends out here, didn't know anybody being out here for just three months, and didn't have a place out here that we could go visit to say 'This is the place where I'm going to visit Paige that I can remember her,'" Sandra Markowitz said.
She and Doron called the city one day to ask about spreading her ashes at Horton Park on the water by Midpoint Bridge. The city official she spoke with told her she could dedicate a bench to Paige.
On Sunday, the couple gathered with their pastor and some of their close friends for a ribbon-cutting for their memorial bench to honor their vibrant, ambitious daughter Paige.
"It was even more impressive than we anticipated. It's breathtaking and it's a wonderful memorial," Doron Markowitz said.
"I wanted a place in Cape Coral in our new home that I could feel she was here," Sandra Markowitz said.
The couple wants others in their situation to know there are options like this out there to honor loved ones.
