by Family and friends said during a memorial service in Houston on Saturday that Chloe Childress, an 18-year-old counselor at Camp Mystic who perished in the floodwaters in Central Texas last weekend, was a force of spontaneity who loved every opportunity. According to her friend Bennett Bowman, she was a girl who had totally heart, whether she was having fun in the locker room, going all out to earn a school award, or coming up with plans to try to meet Taylor Swift.
Sally Sample Graves, who passed away in the Ingram flood at the age of 91 in Kerrville, Texas, was commended for her care of her 10 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
At a funeral, her granddaughter Laura Scott remarked, “She helped all of us grandchildren pay for college, but she wouldn’t buy dryer sheets for herself because they were too expensive.”
Families of deceased paid their respects during ceremonies this weekend as they struggled with the void left behind as the number of fatalities from the flooding in Texas rose to 129 and a horde of workers continued their search for the missing.
Matthew, Ms. Childress’s father, stated, “This is as awful as you believe it to be.”
On Saturday, officials reported that 161 individuals were still unaccounted for and that the number of fatalities from the flooding in Kerr County had increased to 103, 67 adults, and 36 children. On Saturday, the death toll in neighboring counties did not change.
The outpouring of sympathy and sorrow only intensified. Hundreds of people donned pink and green to honor the child’s favorite colors at a funeral in Kerrville for an 8-year-old girl who was at Camp Mystic. The color green was also used for Camp Mystic.
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