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16-year-old girl killed in Stoneham crash

A memorial took shape on Pond Street in Stoneham at the site of the fatal crash, with balloons, flowers, with a photograph of Sydney Coiro and her friends among the items. Pat Greenhouse / Boston Globe

The grandmother of a teen who died after the SUV she was driving crashed here early Sunday remembered her as an aspiring nurse and “an excellent musician” — who was also “a very conscientious driver.”

“We did not expect that this would ever happen,” said Patty Coiro, 59, of Revere.

Her granddaughter Sydney Coiro was an honor student at Stoneham High School and worked at Bear Hill Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Stoneham, she said. She had one older sister, who lives in Seattle, the grandmother said.

“She was a compassionate, loving, very beautiful soul,” Patty Coiro said by phone, as her voice broke. “And our loss is tremendous. She was very well loved.”

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