Her daughter Tawnisha Harbour, 23, who uses a wheelchair after a car accident when she was 18, has burns over 30 percent of her body from the fire.
A story in the Omaha World-Herald after the fire described Tawnisha Harbour as someone with a positive attitude.
Neighbors said Tawnisha Harbour always seemed upbeat despite her medical
problems. She often could be seen pulling herself up and down the ramp on the front of her home as she worked to regain use of her legs.
Anthony Snyder, who lived next door to the Harbours, said he often spoke with Tawnisha Harbour when she worked out.
"She is just a very positive person," Snyder said. "The kind of person you enjoy visiting with when you see them out and around."
In describing the fire, the World-Herald said:
The doors of Tawnisha Harbour's bedroom could not be opened from inside the room, according to police reports.
One door was tied from the outside with a bed sheet. The other had only one doorknob — on the outside of the bedroom, the reports stated.
So when a fire broke out in her house Saturday night, Harbour, who relies on a wheelchair, had no way to escape.
A police investigation revealed that Harbour's mother, Cherie Harbour, was responsible for "securing the room," the reports stated.
