NZ Volcano victim wakes from coma to learn husband, daughter dead

Wellington: An Australian mother who survived the NZ volcano eruption has woken from a coma to be told her daughter and husband died in the disaster last December. When Lisa Dallow woke in Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital burns unit, she was told the heartbreaking news her daughter, Zoe, 15, and husband of almost three years, Gavin, 53, had died during the White Island eruption on December 9.

Her husband’s funeral was held at Adelaide Oval last month.