Like any good mom, Irene Grainger Graves wanted to make sure her three children had a good life. She wanted it so much that she worked three jobs to not only put food on the table but to afford the occasional splurge, to make sure the kids were having fun, making memories.
Graves was working one of those jobs at a convenience store on a fateful Halloween night in 1997 when two armed men walked in and demanded to get into the safe. When the 41-year-old said she didn’t know the combination, she was shot in the head.
That left her three children without their mother, bereft…