She was waiting for the bus: Quebec woman dies after being hit by falling tree branch [Video]

Talya Pardo is trying to hold on to the good memories of her friend Ljubica Milicevic, and the fact that her friend died one day before Mother’s Day doesn’t make it any easier.

“She was really a very special friend for me, like a second mother,” she told Global News.

Milicevic, 76, was struck in the upper body by a tree branch just before 1 p.m. Saturday, according to Montreal police, on Queen Mary Road at the corner of Macdonald Avenue in Côte Saint-Luc.

“She was waiting for the bus,” Pardo explained. “She had texted me not even an hour before.”

Milicevic passed away from her injuries later that day.

Her daughter Isadora Nolan was too distraught to give an on-camera interview, but wrote to Global News saying that her mother “was a few weeks of completing her last novel. She published two novellas and a children’s book. This was her first novel, but her passion was for poetry.”

Pardo …