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This story has just touched my heart. All i ever hear about in the news is how bad and under appreciative (spoiled) kids are today. Then i read this story. Even after all he has been through in his short life he knows what love really is…I don’t think the news publishes enough of these stories…
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Boy gets a proper burial for his stillborn sister
All eyes focused on the tiny casket that 11-year-old Roger Holloway and his three young cousins carried somberly at a Waller cemetery.
When the boys reached their intended destination, they gently placed the white fiberglass box on a stand. Then they adorned it with flowers, stuffed animals and a baby blanket.
About 15 adults were on hand Thursday to witness the event that Roger had dreamed of offering his infant sister — a proper burial at a cemetery near his home, complete with a tombstone bearing the name he had given her.
Although the Hockley fifth-grader’s wish might seem basic in the name of all that is decent, his story is anything but ordinary.
Roger assumed those responsibilities after his sister’s body had remained in the morgue at the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office for almost a year.
The infant, who had been known only as “Fetus Girl Holloway,” was stillborn last May as a result of her mother’s illegal drug use. The 31-week fetus — a well-developed female with a full head of hair — might have ended up in a pauper’s cemetery far from Hockley had her brother not objected, authorities said.
The baby’s father could not be located, and the children’s 33-year-old mother has struggled with a drug addiction for the past two years, staying away from home for months at a time, loved ones said. So Roger, who did not know of his mother’s pregnancy until it was over, gave the tiny girl a name — Rachel — and sought to have her buried within walking distance of his home or school.
chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4635834.html
beckers
Boy gets a proper burial for his stillborn sister
All eyes focused on the tiny casket that 11-year-old Roger Holloway and his three young cousins carried somberly at a Waller cemetery.
When the boys reached their intended destination, they gently placed the white fiberglass box on a stand. Then they adorned it with flowers, stuffed animals and a baby blanket.
About 15 adults were on hand Thursday to witness the event that Roger had dreamed of offering his infant sister — a proper burial at a cemetery near his home, complete with a tombstone bearing the name he had given her.
Although the Hockley fifth-grader’s wish might seem basic in the name of all that is decent, his story is anything but ordinary.
Roger assumed those responsibilities after his sister’s body had remained in the morgue at the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office for almost a year.
The infant, who had been known only as “Fetus Girl Holloway,” was stillborn last May as a result of her mother’s illegal drug use. The 31-week fetus — a well-developed female with a full head of hair — might have ended up in a pauper’s cemetery far from Hockley had her brother not objected, authorities said.
The baby’s father could not be located, and the children’s 33-year-old mother has struggled with a drug addiction for the past two years, staying away from home for months at a time, loved ones said. So Roger, who did not know of his mother’s pregnancy until it was over, gave the tiny girl a name — Rachel — and sought to have her buried within walking distance of his home or school.
chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4635834.html
. And such a great story after all the bad stuff we hear in the news!