Bethpage community recalls mom, daughter killed in crash
Photo credit: Handout | Barbara Ryan, 44, and her daughter, Joanna, 11, were killed April 7, 2010, in a car accident in Bethpage.
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In the tight-knit Bethpage neighborhood where they lived, Barbara Ryan was known as a one-woman welcoming committee. Her daughter, Joanna, 11, seemed like a big sister to many younger kids on Bertram Place.
The pair was inseparable, said their friends on the block.
"She was Barbara's 'Mini-me,' " neighbor Janet Picone said of Joanna.
Paige Scalice, another neighbor, said Barbara,...
