Joan still giving even after death Joan Canino Ryther. HER home was a tiny shack with a dirt floor. She showered with a bucket of water, cooked on a wood fire and slept on lengths of bamboo. Each week, Delia Canino got by with money from her daughter Joan. Murder defence has 36 witness statements Blow to Joan Ryther's widower Joan Ryther lived 1km from the McDonald's outlet in Logan where she worked to support her studies, her new life in Australia and her family in the Philippines. On May 21, the tiny 27-year-old was walking to work for the 9pm shift when she was dragged off the street, bashed, raped and murdered before being left half-naked in the front garden of a Logan house. She was eight weeks pregnant, a lifeline for her unborn child, her family and her husband Cory. In the weeks that followed her brutal death, the people of Logan, Brisbane's Filipino community and many others opened their wallets to help take Joan home to her family. The cash, together with Cory's savings and a WorkCover payout on Joan's death, was enough to take her home and carry out her dream of rebuilding her mother's shack in the Filipino village of Raw-An Point. Joan Ryther was raped and murdered as she walked to work. A teenager will face trial over her slaying. "I didn't do this for glory, nor for ego,"" said Cory, who has spent the past months working on his mother-in-law's home. I did all of this out of duty for Joan's family and (because) this was Jo's dream. I have no dreams of my own anymore. They went with her death and I think a big part of me died with her."" A team of workers stripped the tiny hovel, working with Cory, a civil engineer and a project manager, to rebuild the home, creating a bathroom, a modern kitchen and bedrooms for Delia and two of her grandchildren. There were dirt floors in the kitchen. No stove, just wood,"" he said. She slept on a bamboo bed with no mattress in a room filled with boxes and clutter. A bathroom with no tiles, just bare concrete. No shower of any kind, just buckets of water."" Now Mrs Canino, who raises two of Joan's sister's daughters, has a flat-screen television, ceiling fans and a PlayStation for the children. Cory said the generosity of the Filipino community and the people of Queensland had left Joan's mother in shock. She doesn't speak much English. She just walks around the house in a daze and whenever she sees me she just keeps saying thank you,"" he said. She can't quite grasp the concept that somebody would do this for her. My two nieces, who live with Joan's mother, have a bedroom like most kids in Australia now. It's not cluttered, they have a desk and a bed to sleep on, something they've probably never had, and it will give them a bit of pride and self-esteem. When their friends come over they don't have to be ashamed. They have the best house in the area,"" Cory said.