A little more about Savannah

I got a mass email from her parents that said her funeral will be this Saturday at our church in Gallup. It will be two weeks after she died because her parents wanted to wait until her mother got out of the hospital before they made the final arrangements.

This is what happened *as far as I know*: The family was headed to Colorado to go camping. They were in their Suburban, pulling a huge travel trailer. A gust of wind caught them and rolled the vehicle. The father tried to save Savannah but in the end he was unable to.

It was a freak accident. This is the kind of thing that could happen to ANYone with a high profile vehicle.

Sad news this evening

Terribly distressing, actually. My former Relief Society President called me this evening to tell me one of the mainstay families in our Gallup ward was in a terrible car wreck on Saturday and while everyone was banged up, some pretty badly, the worst was that their 14 year old daughter was killed. I'm having trouble even imagining their family without their daughter in it. She had two older sisters, one of whom just graduated from high school and two younger brothers, the younger of whom was in E's first grade class last year. It's a nice, nice family and very well-liked. I'm sure there are dozens and dozens of families in Gallup and beyond who are hurting.

I know Savannah McMullin's family will be waiting anxiously to greet her again on the other side of the veil.

~sob~