SOUTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A grandmother traveled across the metro just to hold and love on her new grandson. She never made it back home after she was one of two people killed in a horrific crash.
“She wanted to hold them babies. Anybody’s baby,” Cloys Veasy told Channel 2’s Tom Jones about his wife of more than 50 years, Nancy Lee Veasy.
She loved holding babies, even volunteering to watch the newborns at her church in Alpharetta, North Point Community Church.
“She makes sure she gets a baby every Sunday,” her husband said.
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The 76-year-old grandmother was excited to go to her son’s home and hold his 1-month-old child July 25.
“She was like, ‘Ameera, I’m gonna go watch the baby. I’m gonna kiss him,’” her daughter Ameera Joe recalled.
She added she told her mother not to kiss the newborn and spread germs.
Germs or no germs, Veasy’s son, Japhet, says his mother loved on Baby Jackson that day.
“She never put the baby down. The whole time,” he said.
After wrapping up a day filled with loving Jackson, Nancy Veasy headed home. She traveled on Fulton Industrial Boulevard during afternoon traffic.
That’s when her daughter got an alert on her phone. The app Life 360 had an urgent message: “Saying that Nancy has been in an accident and 911 has been called,” Ameera said.
Nancy had died in horrible crash on Fulton Industrial Boulevard around 4 that evening. Another driver was also killed.
A witness told Jones the driver of a truck was driving erratically and went into the median and into oncoming traffic and collided with Nancy’s car and another car.
Nancy’s son had been following her home. He walked up to the crash and noticed his mother was no longer alive.
“That’s the only thing I can imagine right now. I can just still see her in the car,” Japhet said.
He saw police handcuff the driver and put him in a patrol unit. The family thought he faced charges.
City of South Fulton police say he doesn’t face charges and was only being detained. They say they are waiting on evidence to return.
That’s hard for the family to understand.
“No. I don’t understand none of that,” Japhet said emphatically.
“He took my life. That’s 50 something (years), we got married in ‘69,” Veasy’s husband said.
Veasy’s daughter says carelessness stole the life of two people, including her mother’s.
“I want the person responsible to be held accountable for this horrific accident,” Ameera Joe said.
Police say this is still an active investigation.
The family said Veasy was loved and adored by so many.
Her funeral will be held at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta Aug. 11 at 2 p.m.
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