BRANSON, Mo. (AP) – Survivors of the Missouri duck boat accident and many
friends and family members have joined hundreds in the tourism community of
Branson during a memorial service for the 17 who died.
The more than a dozen survivors walked into the Williams Chapel at College of
the Ozarks on Sunday as organ music played.
A patrolman guarded their privacy, but he allowed a woman carrying roses to
deliver them to loved one of an Indiana family that lost nine members during
Thursday’s accident.
Carmen Lawson, a 61-year-old Branson resident, said she’d been on the lake
that day but didn’t go on the boat. She called it “such a tragedy.”
A fire chaplain, Steve Martin, said that while most of the people who died
were visitors, “they are not strangers to us.”
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