Victims of Katrina
HARLINGEN, Texas (Jan. 21) - After Hurricane Katrina socked the central Gulf Coast, Eldo and Julia Allen watched the news and waited in vain for word from their son in Biloxi, Miss.
They waited for nearly four months, not knowing the horrific truth: that their son and daughter-in-law died as the storm surge swallowed their Beach Boulevard apartment. That their bodies had long since been found and identified at the Harrison County, Miss., coroner's office. And that they were about to be "disposed of" after going so long unclaimed.
Months Later, Couple Learns Son, Wife Died in Hurricane
The agencies the Allens had been calling all those months hadn't contacted the coroner, and the coroner hadn't checked with the agencies.
"Nobody talked to nobody," Eldo Allen said, his voice wrapped in grief. "That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been..."
He bowed his head over a dining room table laden with family photo albums, sympathy cards from the retirement community, and the black box holding his son's ashes, before completing his thought: "That would have been more than I could stand."
After Reading this in the News I felt the need to add this
beloved son and wife into FAG, I pray this helps the family to know that we care.
HARLINGEN, Texas (Jan. 21) - After Hurricane Katrina socked the central Gulf Coast, Eldo and Julia Allen watched the news and waited in vain for word from their son in Biloxi, Miss.
They waited for nearly four months, not knowing the horrific truth: that their son and daughter-in-law died as the storm surge swallowed their Beach Boulevard apartment. That their bodies had long since been found and identified at the Harrison County, Miss., coroner's office. And that they were about to be "disposed of" after going so long unclaimed.
Months Later, Couple Learns Son, Wife Died in Hurricane
The agencies the Allens had been calling all those months hadn't contacted the coroner, and the coroner hadn't checked with the agencies.
"Nobody talked to nobody," Eldo Allen said, his voice wrapped in grief. "That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been..."
He bowed his head over a dining room table laden with family photo albums, sympathy cards from the retirement community, and the black box holding his son's ashes, before completing his thought: "That would have been more than I could stand."
After Reading this in the News I felt the need to add this
beloved son and wife into FAG, I pray this helps the family to know that we care.
Victims of Katrina
HARLINGEN, Texas (Jan. 21) - After Hurricane Katrina socked the central Gulf Coast, Eldo and Julia Allen watched the news and waited in vain for word from their son in Biloxi, Miss.
They waited for nearly four months, not knowing the horrific truth: that their son and daughter-in-law died as the storm surge swallowed their Beach Boulevard apartment. That their bodies had long since been found and identified at the Harrison County, Miss., coroner's office. And that they were about to be "disposed of" after going so long unclaimed.
Months Later, Couple Learns Son, Wife Died in Hurricane
The agencies the Allens had been calling all those months hadn't contacted the coroner, and the coroner hadn't checked with the agencies.
"Nobody talked to nobody," Eldo Allen said, his voice wrapped in grief. "That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been..."
He bowed his head over a dining room table laden with family photo albums, sympathy cards from the retirement community, and the black box holding his son's ashes, before completing his thought: "That would have been more than I could stand."
After Reading this in the News I felt the need to add this
beloved son and wife into FAG, I pray this helps the family to know that we care.
HARLINGEN, Texas (Jan. 21) - After Hurricane Katrina socked the central Gulf Coast, Eldo and Julia Allen watched the news and waited in vain for word from their son in Biloxi, Miss.
They waited for nearly four months, not knowing the horrific truth: that their son and daughter-in-law died as the storm surge swallowed their Beach Boulevard apartment. That their bodies had long since been found and identified at the Harrison County, Miss., coroner's office. And that they were about to be "disposed of" after going so long unclaimed.
Months Later, Couple Learns Son, Wife Died in Hurricane
The agencies the Allens had been calling all those months hadn't contacted the coroner, and the coroner hadn't checked with the agencies.
"Nobody talked to nobody," Eldo Allen said, his voice wrapped in grief. "That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been..."
He bowed his head over a dining room table laden with family photo albums, sympathy cards from the retirement community, and the black box holding his son's ashes, before completing his thought: "That would have been more than I could stand."
After Reading this in the News I felt the need to add this
beloved son and wife into FAG, I pray this helps the family to know that we care.
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