Couple killed on way to plan funerals for three grandchildren
Tragedy added to tragedy Tuesday when an Ohio couple died in an accident on their way to help make funeral arrangements for their three grandchildren.
Marc and Misty Royce of Circleville were killed in a crash on a snowy road on their way to help Marc Royce's daughter, Kacey Stacey, plan funerals for her three children, who died in a mobile home fire over the weekend, CNN affiliate WBNS-TV reported.
Couple killed on way to plan funerals for three grandchildren
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Children crushed by debris when stairwell collapses
July 17, 2008, 12:48PM
Children crushed by debris when stairwell collapses
2 die and another is injured in southwest Houston
By RUTH RENDON and JENNIFER LATSON
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
The southwest Houston apartment complex where two children died and another was injured late Wednesday in the collapse of a stairway had not undergone a city inspection in 12 years, according to records.
As three city inspectors examined the site today at the Westwood Fountains apartments, security guards shooed the news media off the property and the management office remained locked, with the blinds drawn.
Phone calls to the office were not answered.
Residents, however, came to the site of the collapse to look at the wreckage and recall the horror of the previous night, when two young boys were crushed while playing on a staircase that was supposed to have been locked.
Tacatta Spears, who lives near the family of a boy who died, said one of the boys screamed, "Help me! My back! My back hurts!" as men worked to free him from the broken concrete.
Children crushed by debris when stairwell collapses
2 die and another is injured in southwest Houston
By RUTH RENDON and JENNIFER LATSON
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
The southwest Houston apartment complex where two children died and another was injured late Wednesday in the collapse of a stairway had not undergone a city inspection in 12 years, according to records.
As three city inspectors examined the site today at the Westwood Fountains apartments, security guards shooed the news media off the property and the management office remained locked, with the blinds drawn.
Phone calls to the office were not answered.
Residents, however, came to the site of the collapse to look at the wreckage and recall the horror of the previous night, when two young boys were crushed while playing on a staircase that was supposed to have been locked.
Tacatta Spears, who lives near the family of a boy who died, said one of the boys screamed, "Help me! My back! My back hurts!" as men worked to free him from the broken concrete.
The bodies of the two boys who were killed, ages 4 and 10, were removed about 1:30 a.m. after the area had been secured enough for workers to move the wreckage, Assistant Fire Chief Omero Longoria said this morning.
A 9-year-old boy is at Texas Children's Hospital, being treated for injuries including an apparent broken leg.
The three were playing in a three-story outdoor stairwell, which Westwood Fountains residents say was corroded and rarely used, when the concrete landings groaned loose and slammed down on the boys about 7:40 p.m.
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
Operation Homefront comes through for Johnson Family
Army couple finds help after pain of Iraq, deaths of their 3 children
09:23 PM CST on Thursday, January 3, 2008
By DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News
dmclemore@dallasnews.com
CIBOLO, Texas – In near-freezing temperatures Thursday, Spc. Austin Johnson and his wife, Lisa, cut through a yellow ribbon stretched across the porch of their new home and walked in to a house full of furniture.
The move into the new home – their first house since the couple married right out of high school – is bittersweet for the Johnsons.
Last August, Spc. Johnson, 27, received a traumatic brain injury from an improvised explosive device blast in Iraq, his fifth explosion in two tours.
Tragedy struck again in October, not long after he began rehabilitation at Brooke Army Medical Center. Their three children were killed after Mrs. Johnson's car was overturned by heavy winds in West Texas as she drove from El Paso to be with her husband.
"There are a lot of Johnsons out there," said Amy Palmer, co-founder of Operation Homefront, the nonprofit group that called on local businesses and dozens of donors to help the Johnsons.
More than 30,000 troops have been wounded in six years of war; and as many as 100,000 may experience post-traumatic stress disorder.Officials with Operation Homefront hope Thursday's event serves as a model to help other wounded service members whose lives have been disrupted by war.
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09:23 PM CST on Thursday, January 3, 2008
By DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News
dmclemore@dallasnews.com
CIBOLO, Texas – In near-freezing temperatures Thursday, Spc. Austin Johnson and his wife, Lisa, cut through a yellow ribbon stretched across the porch of their new home and walked in to a house full of furniture.
The move into the new home – their first house since the couple married right out of high school – is bittersweet for the Johnsons.
Last August, Spc. Johnson, 27, received a traumatic brain injury from an improvised explosive device blast in Iraq, his fifth explosion in two tours.
Tragedy struck again in October, not long after he began rehabilitation at Brooke Army Medical Center. Their three children were killed after Mrs. Johnson's car was overturned by heavy winds in West Texas as she drove from El Paso to be with her husband.
"There are a lot of Johnsons out there," said Amy Palmer, co-founder of Operation Homefront, the nonprofit group that called on local businesses and dozens of donors to help the Johnsons.
More than 30,000 troops have been wounded in six years of war; and as many as 100,000 may experience post-traumatic stress disorder.Officials with Operation Homefront hope Thursday's event serves as a model to help other wounded service members whose lives have been disrupted by war.
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