Three siblings have lost both their parents after they died in separate incidents over two days.
The children's mother, 49-year-old Gail Coomber, died after being hit by a falling tree in the central Victorian town of Maryborough on Tuesday.
The body of her former husband Wayne was discovered in bushland in nearby Daisy Hill on Monday, but police say they don't believe his death is suspicious.
Ms Coomber and her children had been at the Maryborough police station on the day of her death collecting her former husband's belongings.
Police said she was walking across a basketball court at the Highview Christian Community College in Maryborough with her son at about 3.30pm (AEST) when the tree fell on her.
She suffered multiple fractures and went into cardiac arrest and died at the Maryborough hospital a short time later.
"Both incidents are totally unrelated, it's just simply tragic circumstances," Maryborough Police Senior Constable Stephen Atkinson told the Nine Network.
Ms Coomber's brother, Peter Louge, told the Nine Network of his grief.
"She was a lovable sister, lovable mother and grandmother, she had two grandkids," he said.
A group of retirees driving past in a bus witnessed the incident.
There was no repeat of Tuesday's wild weather on Wednesday with conditions calm by early afternoon.
There was a relatively low 175 jobs for the State Emergency Service on Wednesday, involving tree and building damage, spokesman Allan Briggs told AAP.
On Tuesday, wind gusts in excess of 100km/h battered country and metropolitan Victoria, knocking down dozens of powerlines and poles.
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