West, Texas, held a ceremony Saturday marking the solemn anniversary of the deadly fertilizer plant explosion a decade ago.
It took her family more than a week to confirm her son was one of the people killed in the explosion.
At the ceremony Saturday, all 15 names were read out loud in their memory. It was followed by a moment of silence at the end of the program.The deceased victims were Morris Bridges, Perry Calvin, Jerry Dane Chapman, Cody Frank Dragoo, Kenneth Harris, Adolph Lander, James Matus, Judith Ann Monroe, Joseph “Joey” Pustejovsky, Cyrus Adam Reed, Mariano C. Saldivar, Kevin William Sanders, Douglas Snokhous, Robert Snokhous and William Uptmor, Jr.
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