More than 100 people — family, friends, and community members — gathered for a vigil at Trenton Community Park on Thursday to honor 15-year-old Hallie Deaton, an Edgewood High School freshman killed in a crash.”I don’t know what I’m going to do without her. She’s irreplaceable. There’s no one ever going to be like her again,” said Suzette Rawlins, her mother. Her mother and father struggled to find words to describe the emotions of losing a child.“I had to bury my father at 12 and now I have to bury my daughter at 15 and it’s just not fair. She had her whole life ahead of her,” said James Deaton, her father. Family and friends released balloons and lit candles to honor Haille. “My daughter was a female version of me. She would dance in the streets and inside of grocery stores and she was just fun, ” Deaton said.Hallie is being remembered as someone who loved with her whole heart. Family says she had a great sense of humor and aspired to be a nurse.”I’m used to seeing Hallie walk through my house every day after the bus and say, ‘Hi mimi’ and give me a hug and head straight for my refrigerator,” said Sherry Albin, her grandmother. Hallie was one of four teens in a car that collided with a pick-up truck along State Route 73 on Tuesday. The Trenton community is now mourning the loss of a young girl, gone too soon. “Her dad and all of us were just heartbroken. i don’t know what we’re going to do without her,” Albin said.An Edgewood mother has organized a benefit for Friday, May 6, at the Trenton Moose Lodge from 2 p.m. to close. All donations, raffles and auctions will go towards helping the family with funeral expenses.
More than 100 people — family, friends, and community members — gathered for a vigil at Trenton Community Park on Thursday to honor 15-year-old Hallie Deaton, an Edgewood High School freshman killed in a crash.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do without her. She’s irreplaceable. There’s no one ever going to be like her again,” said Suzette Rawlins, her mother.
Her mother and father struggled to find words to describe the emotions of losing a child.
“I had to bury my father at 12 and now I have to bury my daughter at 15 and it’s just not fair. She had her whole life ahead of her,” said James Deaton, her father.
Family and friends released balloons and lit candles to honor Haille.
“My daughter was a female version of me. She would dance in the streets and inside of grocery stores and she was just fun, ” Deaton said.
Hallie is being remembered as someone who loved with her whole heart. Family says she had a great sense of humor and aspired to be a nurse.
“I’m used to seeing Hallie walk through my house every day after the bus and say, ‘Hi mimi’ and give me a hug and head straight for my refrigerator,” said Sherry Albin, her grandmother.
Hallie was one of four teens in a car that collided with a pick-up truck along State Route 73 on Tuesday. The Trenton community is now mourning the loss of a young girl, gone too soon.
“Her dad and all of us were just heartbroken. i don’t know what we’re going to do without her,” Albin said.
An Edgewood mother has organized a benefit for Friday, May 6, at the Trenton Moose Lodge from 2 p.m. to close. All donations, raffles and auctions will go towards helping the family with funeral expenses.
