Community mourns Missouri duck boat accident victims
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Updated Jul 23, 2018 12:15 AM EDT
BRANSON, Mo. — The 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank in a Missouri lake were remembered Sunday during a service attended by around 200 people in the tourism community of Branson. A church bell at Williams Chapel at College of the Ozarks chimed 17 times for those who died Thursday at Table Rock Lake, the Joplin Globe reported.”Today we honor the 17 lives that were lost,” said Branson Mayor Karen Best. “We honor the 14 survivors. And we honor the many heroes who did everything in their power to save lives.”The service was held at the college near the site of the accident, which happened as winds approached hurricane strength. The city and college hosted the remembrance for the victims. The other victims killed were from Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois.More than a dozen survivors of the tragedy, along with their family and friends, filled the front pews of the church to organ music. Although a patrolman guarded their privacy, he allowed one attendee, Carmen Lawson, to deliver pink and red roses after the service to a family that lost nine loved ones.”It was such a tragedy,” said Lawson, 61, of Branson, who delivered the flowers. “I feel for the family.”Residents attend a memorial service for victims of a deadly duck boat accident on Sunday, July 22, 2018.
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Branson Mayor Karen Best recalled the desperate family members who turned to City Hall for information about their loved ones.”We started putting faces with names. Those who were once strangers to us quickly became family,” Best said. “They were a part of our community. And we did what families do. We held hands, we wept and we prayed together.”She praised the people who tried to save others from drowning, calling them “heroes who did everything in …
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