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11-year-old fights for funeral for stillborn sister
Houston Chronicle ^
| March 15, 2007
| PEGGY O'HARE
Posted on 03/15/2007 8:44:01 AM PDT by AgentEcho
His peers are playing video games or riding their bikes, but Roger Holloway is spending his spring break fulfilling a very personal mission giving his infant sister a proper burial.
His father is dead. His mother is in a hospital trying to beat a drug addiction.
So the responsibility for properly naming and burying the sister he never knew, who was stillborn nearly a year ago because of his mother's drug use, fell squarely on Roger's 11-year-old shoulders.
Today, thanks to Roger's determination and the kindness of strangers, the baby girl, known in the official record only as "Fetus Girl Holloway," will finally be laid to rest near his home at a Waller cemetery instead of in a pauper's grave.
And her burial plot will be marked by a 75-pound granite tombstone bearing an angel and the name Rachel Holloway a name chosen for her by her brother.
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posted on
03/15/2007 8:44:04 AM PDT
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AgentEcho
To: AgentEcho
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posted on
03/15/2007 8:45:55 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: AgentEcho
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posted on
03/15/2007 8:46:48 AM PDT
by
Hydroshock
(Duncan Hunter For President, checkout gohunter08.com.)
To: AgentEcho
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03/15/2007 8:47:08 AM PDT
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tioga
To: AgentEcho
To: AgentEcho
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posted on
03/15/2007 8:48:35 AM PDT
by
mockingbyrd
(peace begins in the womb)
To: AgentEcho
Compare this young man (11 years old) and his strong feeling of responsibility, with the 13 year old criminal on another thread here.
What makes one boy in a very bad environment become so responsible and caring, and another become a criminal?
To: AgentEcho
Prayers for this brave little boy & his little sister. Shaking my head again..this is really so sad.
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posted on
03/15/2007 8:49:53 AM PDT
by
pandoraou812
( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
To: AgentEcho
Yup - another "drug use is a victimless crime" story. I did note that the "father of dead infant" could not be found.... A society that is cracking at the seams, and yet good folks still offered a hand.
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03/15/2007 8:52:43 AM PDT
by
ASOC
("Once humans are exposed to excellence, mere average desirability is disappointing")
To: YellowRoseofTx
"I'm not going to make the same decisions my mom made," he said, sobbing at times. " ... For the rest of my life, I'm going to hate drugs because of what happened to my mom and because it killed my sister."I pray he keeps to his promise and leads a successful happy life.
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posted on
03/15/2007 8:54:53 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: AgentEcho
Where did this fine young man get this kind of character? It gives hope that good can still arise out of this hollow shell of a "culture" we have today.
To: YellowRoseofTx
What makes one boy in a very bad environment become so responsible and caring, and another become a criminal?Free will.
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posted on
03/15/2007 8:58:04 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(After 20+ LONG years, a REAL conservative I can support 4 President - DUNCAN HUNTER '08)
To: YellowRoseofTx
I have not see pictures but could it be race?
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03/15/2007 8:58:56 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: AgentEcho
"I'm not going to make the same decisions my mom made," he said, sobbing at times. " ... For the rest of my life, I'm going to hate drugs because of what happened to my mom and because it killed my sister."God bless him! This kid is gonna do something with his life.
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03/15/2007 9:04:13 AM PDT
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Millee
(Tagline free since 10/20/06)
To: AgentEcho
Crying... Bless him and one of heaven's newest citizens.
To: AgentEcho
I want to give this kid a hug.....
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posted on
03/15/2007 9:07:06 AM PDT
by
Feiny
(Fruitloops are Gay Cheerios)
To: edcoil
"I have not see pictures but could it be race?"
What a well thought-out statement in a thread about a child's love and humanity.
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posted on
03/15/2007 9:12:54 AM PDT
by
guido911
(Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: feinswinesuksass
I want to adopt this kid!
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03/15/2007 9:15:41 AM PDT
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peggybac
(Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
To: YellowRoseofTx
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03/15/2007 9:21:38 AM PDT
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jusduat
(I am a strange and recurring anomaly)
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