For more than a month late this past summer, there was a makeshift memorial outside of the Norwood apartment building where a mother mourned the loss of five of her six children who died together in a horrific Virginia car crash.
On July 24, a sedan carrying all five children swerved on a Virginia highway and ran smack into an oncoming truck, killing the kids and another companion almost instantly. Local activist Joe Thompson and Pastor Jay Gooding helped the mother, Pamela Ramharrack, arrange the funeral and deal with the loss.
The five children – Jessica, 11; Anderson, 13; Emmanuel, 16; Anthony, 21; and Perthrian, 24 – were brought to McCall’s Funeral Home on Aug.17.
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