It
has been two years since the July 24th Hopkinton gas explosion killed
our daughters Violet and Iris Carey. On the anniversary date of the
explosion, for the past two years, we have gone to the place where our
daughters died to hold a candlelight vigil and to deal with our grief
and honor their lives and memory.
On July 24, 2004, our friends and
family gathered at the Hopkinton site to hold a candle light vigil. We
feel a memorial should be present at the place our daughters died and we
spent hours making the memorial in honor of our daughters. We erected a
cross, had beach buckets filled with Violet and Iris flowers and sand
from the beach they loved, pictures, an angel with their names on it and
memorial candles.
On July 31, 2004 a blond white
female in a blue Ford Explorer was seen taking the memorial down and
placing everything from it into her car. We do not know who this person
is or why they would do this.
We feel completely violated that
someone would do this to us and our daughters memory. It is bad enough
that Violet and Iris are gone, but to destroy or steal their memorial is
unimaginable. We cannot understand what kind of person could do such a
thing. We would like the person who took it to return it to the
Hopkinton site at 65 Main St.
If anyone has any information about
who took down the memorial, or why they did it, please contact us at
flowers@flowersareforever.org.
TARA and HEATH CAREY, parents of
Violet and Iris Carey
